Quotes About Communication

If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.

If you need help or advice, ask for it, but don't worry too much about hurting other people's feelings by not doing what they say. If your gut says no, trust it. Do what seems right.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy.

You have two voices: the one you speak with and the one you think with. While the former is the one others hear, of greater importance is the one you hear.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

If you don't create a good message about your dreams, those who were created to pay for it can't find it. Speak them out and you will find those God created to finance it

Teamwork is good netiquette. All good users can work together to accomplish goals. NetworkEtiquette.net

Paige cleared her throat. "Hey, Taylor?" "What?" she snapped. "Um...he...maybe he can help us?" "He doesn't seem very helpful, " Taylor said grumpily.

One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.

There is nothing more blinding than having seen the light, and nothing more tiresome than sharing it.

Laughter is the most powerful weapon against verbal attack anyone can have.

I'm not sure why there's this anger in the youth, but we need to talk about it. Kids need to get help if they need help, and bullies need to be helped as well.

I think comedy is a good way to help people change their minds. I think that if you're laughing and getting a message across, it's a lot easier than when somebody is screaming in your face.

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.

The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.