Quotes About Communication

Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.

The more I disliked myself the more wretched I grew. The difference now was that this mood did not manifest itself in sullen silence; I merely made use of my barbed tongue to wound them and spoil their pleasure.

About these times, my father says that he wishes he had made better decisions. That the burden of raising us alone led him to favor strict regimens and that he wasn't able to talk about his emotions. In retrospect, there is a lot he wishes he'd done differently.

I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.

you'll have to trust me that it takes two people to make a marriage either succeed or fail.

I thought you loved me.

Last Week Dara had asked Claire to bring him a houseplant. She'd come back with a tiny little pothos vine in a ceramic pot. Dara had positioned it near the window, and he was embarrassed to admit he'd taken to talking with the plant, one-sided conversations to fill the empty hours.

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

If you scratch below the glossy surface of many "enviable" marriages, often you'll find a disenchanted wife whose husband finds the landscape of her emotions as uninteresting as the moon's.

Another step is that daughters can learn to monitor their own feelings and instincts by saying, "I feel uncomfortable (angry, dominated, usurped, inadequate, guilty, furious) with my mother more often than I do not. I have to pay attention to that, because it shows in how I treat my friends (lover, spouse, kids, colleagues). There is validity here. I don't have to blame or excuse my mother-I just have to see her so I can see myself.

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

She cursed me at such length and with such inventiveness I had to check both my watch and my dictionary.

Your problem isn't that you think too much; your problem is letting everyone know what you're thinking.

Isn't that what education is all about? Getting the student to sincerely say what the teacher wants to hear? Keep that in mind.

Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel absolutely comfortable not saying a word. At least that's one way I've figured out hot to describe love.

My...principles in talking to a woman: do not ask permission; do not say hello; ...do not let her speak first...give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me...statements, not questions, were less likely to lead to no.

The hardest thing to do in talking to a woman was taking the first step, but the most important thing to do was not to think.

Like a shark who must keep swimming to live, a politician... had to keep his lips constantly moving.

Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel absolutely comfortable not saying a word.

people who do not get the joke are dangerous people indeed

Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it. I

Like a shark who must keep swimming to live, a politician—which was what the General had become—had to keep his lips constantly moving.