Quotes About Communication

Imagine, if you will, what life would be like if you were not understood.

Before marriage keep your eyes wide open, after marriage keep them half closed.

To hunt words is to do no trespass.

One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what you feel is real.

You don't get to tell people how to love you; you get to choose if you want to participate in the way they love.

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Perhaps, if I make a friend of the mountain cuckoo in this world, he will talk to me when we cross the mountain of death

Paul spoke of his failures and successes with an openness few of us are prepared to copy.

To get at the root of problems, a leader must develop into a skillful listener. Too many strong personalities are compulsive talkers. "He won't listen to me," complains a missionary. "He gives the answer before I have had a chance to state the problem.

Diskurse herrschen nicht. Sie erzeugen eine kommunikative Macht, die die administrative nicht ersetzen kann, sondern nur beeinflussen kann.

We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Het is altijd vervelend wanneer iemand je geen antwoord geeft of niet doet alsof hij je niet verstaat. Dat gebeurt op vergaderingen ook wel eens. De woorden blijven in de lucht hangen, zoals dat heet, en de betrokkene doet zijn uiterste best zijn verlegenheid en irritatie te verbergen door zich met een scherpe wending in zijn betoog tot iemand te richten die op dat moment toevallig in zijn richting kijkt.

In de taal zit een vrijheid verborgen waar de censor niet bij kan. Al onze schrijvers kennen dat geheim.

Even a liar's speech expresses something true; it may not tell us the state of the world, but it tells us the state of his heart.

Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

Without respect, there is no love … for long, for anyone, but a fool.

Always sighed deep. "Don't talk to your mama like that son. I … I could call you them same names … but I ain't.

The church is the only nonprofit on the planet that does not want its leader to know everything he or she can about how the nonprofit functions and pays its bills.

Never Send Out a Line-Item Budget Again