Quotes About Communication

I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Não se pode trocar um aperto de mão com um punho fechado

You cannot shake hands with a closed fist.

there is a word SILENT, which means khaamush, it has the exact same letters as the word LISTEN. So open your ears and tell me, what can you hear?

This is how guilt infects, if you're afraid that someone will be angry with you, you immediately start feeling angry with them.

Ausdruck ist Wahn

No descuido la escritura, sino a mí misma. Los otros saben dios lo sabe qué hacer con las palabras. Yo no soy mi asistente. ¿Debo aprisionar un pensamiento llevarlo a la iluminada celda de una frase?

Quién me pregunta a mí, quién pregunta alguna vez a personas que piensan por sí mismas y se atreven a vivir, y en qué me habéis convertido, a mí y a tantas otras con esta absurda actitud comprensiva ante cualquier problema, acaso no se le ha ocurrido a nadie que también se asesina a las personas cuando se les priva de la palabra y con ello de la posibilidad de vivir y pensar.

Ich aber konnte überhaupt keine Schuld in dem Kind entdecken, seit es nicht mehr so wehrlos und stumm wie in den ersten Wochen war. Und damals war es wohl nicht unschuldig, sondern nur unfähig zu einer Äußerung gewesen, ein Bündel auf feinem Fleisch und Flachs, mit dünnem Atem, mit einem riesigen dumpfen Kopf, der wie ein Blitzableiter die Botschaften der Welt entschärfte.

For in his presence I grow silent, because the smallest words — yes, now, well, and, but, then, oh! — are so loaded, coming from me to him they have a hundred times their meaning

I will tell you a terrible secret: language is punishment. Language must encompass all things and in it all things must again transpire according to guilt and the degree of guilt.

A quien nunca se quedó sin palabras, y yo os lo digo, quien sólo sabe ayudarse a sí mismo, con las palabras, a éste no se le puede ayudar. Ni por el camino corto ni por el largo. Hacer sostenible una única frase, aguantar el dig-dong de las palabras. Nadie escriba esta frase que no la firma.

We have to work hard with the bad language that we have inherited to arrive at that language which has never yet ruled, but which rules our intuition, and which we imitate.

Estar permanentemente en las palabras, quieras o no, estar siempre vivo, lleno de palabras por la vida, como si las palabras estuviesen vivas, como si la vida fuera palabra.

speak across borders even if borders pass through every word.

No new world without a new language.

What of those loving, accepting, understanding voices? Do you hear them? Or do you only hear what hurts?

She wondered all the same how much they really had to say to one another, given that they had only this city in common and a similar way of talking, the same intonation, perhaps she'd just wanted to believe after that third whiskey on the roof garden at the Hilton that he would give her back something she'd lost, a missing taste, an intonation gone flat, that ghostly feeling of home, though she was no longer at home anywhere.

Ald?rm?yorum, geliÅŸigüzel, ya, öyle mi, diyorum, çünkü birbirimize söylediÄŸimiz say?l? ÅŸeylerle, ona gerçekten söylemek istediÄŸim aras?nda bir hava boÅŸluÄŸu var; istediÄŸim ona her ÅŸeyi söylemek, ama tek yapt???m burada oturmak...

I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~ Emily Dickinson

Lambert while I'm at it." "She's

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break." ? William

Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. ~ Author Unknown