Quotes About Communication

At times she could barely speak in response to the rabbi's questions. Other times she could hardly find enough breath for all the words she needed to utter, though the rabbi listened with great patience. On those days the new thoughts so brimmed in her that she felt the white plaster ceiling and the timbers and the brickwork walls couldn't contain her—should she raise her head to speak once more, she'd shake the house down.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

and Homan learned a language of pointing and jabbing and fist closing and finger flicking, frowning and shrugging and waving and saluting, brow raising and eye narrowing and lip pursing and head tilting. His anger ran off, and happiness moved in.

Writing, it was like a heavenly balm, it was like the flowing out of deep waters, it was like the lifting of a load from the spirit; it brought with it a sense of relief, of assuagement. One could say things in writing without feeling self-conscious, without feeling shy and ashamed and foolish -- one could even write of the days of young Nelson, smiling a very little as one did so.

NOTICIARIO DE UN COLEGIAL MELANCÓLICO NOMINATIVO: la nieve GENITIVO: de la nieve DATIVO: a o para la nieve ACUSATIVO: a la nieve VOCATIVO: ¡oh la nieve! ABLATIVO: con la nieve de la nieve en la nieve por la nieve sin la nieve sobre la nieve tras la nieve La luna tras la nieve Y estos pronombres personales extraviados por el río y esta conjugación tristísima perdida entre los árboles BUSTER KEATON

But they were fated to misunderstand each other.

when teaching or parenting, you must always try to see things from the child's point of view and never use fear as a shortcut for education.

Kediler kendilerine verilen hiçbir emre uymazlar, üstelik de insanlarla olan üç bin y?ll?k tan???kl?klar?na raÄŸmen. Biz insanlar?n öÄŸreneceÄŸi ne de çok ÅŸey var!

I ran out of the apartment in a rage. Mahmud followed me, and we walked home, not speaking. Shortly before we reached the door to the house, he grabbed hold of me. You're my friend, even if you've hurt me, he said. I embraced him and asked his forgiveness.

Discourse about God is unique and cannot be compared to any other human language. It is irreducible to any other discourse.

Nuestra cultura es una tercera piel (la segunda es el entorno ecológico). La naturaleza humana es cultural. La cultura no es un aditamiento artificial del hombre, como un cierto evolucionismo sutilmente presupone. El hombre es un animal cultural, la cultura es natural y las culturas son distintas, aunque no incomunicables.

El Ser es hablante antes que pensante.

All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.

Even with the intention to be quiet, human beings seldom can restrain from comment or at least grumbled cursing; we are the chattering species, as much as we are anything else - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 56 chapter 7

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

You've always mistaken my absolute self-assurance for profound thought.

When you keep a secret from those closest to you, even with the best of motives, there is a danger that you will create a smaller life within your main life. The first secret will spin off other secrets that also must be kept, complicated webs of evasion that grow into elaborate architectures of repressed truths and subterfuge, until you discover that you must live two narratives at once.

You're spooky, he said, You knew what I was thinking. That not spooky, she said, That's married.

Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.

Stormy Llewellyn didn't want a pedestal. She wanted only someone who would look her straight in the eyes and always tell her the truth.

I said what might have been a bad word meaning excrement, but I hope that I used a polite synonym.

The dog chose more letters, waited for them to study the words, then looked solemnly at each of them to be sure they understood what he meant: I WOULD DIE OF LONELY.

I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.