Quotes About Communication

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.

The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

O círculo em que podemos ter comunicações reais com outros seres é muito estreito: não se deve buscar ampliá-lo indefinidamente. Aqui só a qualidade importa. Numa comunicação real com um único ser, já estão contidas as relações de todos os homens entre si.

Há palavras que são pronunciadas com a simples intenção de agir sobre os outros homens e de produzir algum efeito: o que sucede também quando se escreve. Elas não têm valor: as únicas palavras que contam são as pronunciadas tendo em vista a verdade e não o resultado.

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

If you look up a word in the dictionary, you find it defined by a string of other words, the meanings of which can be discovered by looking them up in a dictionary, leading to more words that can be looked up in turn. There is no exit from the dictionary.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Lewis - "Why did you hit Brian over the head with the cricket bat?" Bev - "Because I love him, there was no other way to get his attention.

It's the body and eyes that tell what a person is thinking or going to do.

Dit alles heb ik dan student Steivekleut meegedeeld, eindigend met dit: Ik heb gezegd, ik dank u voor uw aandacht.

I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.

The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.

But then Vega snapped in a loud, clear voice, "My guess is they clicked 'like' because there's no 'I fucked her' button.

The message from Vega was still there; it had not evaporated. A thin line pulsed horizontally through the letters in her name. Cap knew it was because the screen was old, something to do with the monitor's magnetic field, but it made the word look alive, like it had a shaky little heart.

Won't teach any more if I can help it; don't like it; and if I can get writing enough can do much better.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

Lloyd, she's here,' I call out, unnecessarily, to my husband (he's not deaf, but it gives me the illusion of being in control).

Fives feel so close to their mothers that they sometimes overestimate her ability to read their minds. They are often quick and a little impatient and don't always give all the necessary clues as to what they are talking about. Then they tend to be quite angry if she doesn't pick up on their story at once. It takes a quick wit to be a mother.

You have put your two hands upon me, and your mouth, You have said my name as a prayer. Here where trees are planted by water I have watched your eyes, cleansed from regret, And your lips, closed over all that love cannot say.