Quotes About Communication

Las historias necesitan palabras. Sin ellas palidecen, enferman y mueren. Y luego te persiguen.

How horribly dull. I could never have been a biographer. Don't you think one can tell the truth much better with a story?" "Not in the stories you have told the world so far.

I needed a lost language. One in which I could communicate with the lost.

I'm a storyteller." "I am a biographer.

speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book.

Don't you think one can tell the truth much better with a story?

But there was more. Did she know I had noticed? I had made no outward sign. But I had noticed. Today Miss Winter had said I.

El silencio no es el entorno natural para las historias -me dijo en una ocasión la señorita Winter-. Las historias necesitan palabras. Sin ellas palidecen, enferman y mueren. Y luego te persiguen.

Once you said a thing, it could never be taken back and would be taken up and repeated and altered and told again, no matter how misshapen and out of true. Better to say nothing.

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories. So," she concluded, "everybody has a story. When are you going to tell me yours?" "I'm not.

It was laconic, but it was true. As soon as you started to put more words in, you came to unreason.

Armstrong] had found the line that separated humans from the animal kingdom to be a porous one, and all the things that people though unique to them--intelligence, kindness, communication--he had seen in his pigs, his horse, even the rooks that hopped ad strutted amongst his cows. And then there was this: the methods he used on animals generally bore fruit when applied to people too. He could usually win them round in the end.

Since she started dating "Uncle" Roger, she's often not returned home until late morning on weekends. During the week, she'll sometimes just call when she gets to work around 8:30. Today's Saturday, so I figure she'll show up in time for lunch. Hopefully, with some groceries.

Lack of respect could make you angry. Lack of trust could get you killed.

Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly.

Never mind your intentions. Communication is about what others hear with your words.

Good communication may not make a risky deal safe, but poor communication may sell benefits of a good deal.

Strong communicators increase their influence because they are intentional and focused with their language.

Your email greetings should warm readers up—not put them off.

Can't you just keep your big mouth shut? Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. How do we know he's safe? For all we know, he could be the devil that you summoned up! Oh, you flatter me, Brian, Chrestomanci said.

My husband ...has passed away. This is a euphemism, of course. I mean to say that he is dead. He is departed from this world. He is elsewhere and singing with the angels...there is another euphemism: singing with the angels. I ask you, why is it so hard to stay away from euphemisms? They creep in, always, and attempt to make the difficult things more pleasing.

To be a leader, you must first be a team player, and you must care for the men you lead.

You can get into trouble really fast because it's often not what you say or mean, it's what they hear and understand. And be careful not to take offense when they mean no offense.