Quotes About Communication

Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt.

Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.

My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.

So the patient went to the mountains, and do you know what? Next day a telegram arrived for the psychiatrist. The patient said in the telegram, 'I am feeling very happy - why?'

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means.

...[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.

If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don't be surprised when it dies.

If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.

We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.

Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.

If your eyes could speak, what would they say?

I wanted to tell her happy was hard for me. But I think she already knew that.

All communication is a sign of failure. If everybody is pleased with the situation, then there is no need for communication.

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.

My writing, it's my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write.

I hate when you have to smile for me..so nice if you'd do that spontaneously.

Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -

An honest smile is an icebreaker.

A smile is not to take, it's given.

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

In the game of Frisbee you throw the disk to someone else. The point of Frisbee is perfect communication. The person at the other end of the field is receiving an impression, a vibration from you.

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.