Quotes About Communication

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve to you.

Big Angel didn't speak, just beamed like some small lighthouse.

Lately," said Hubbard, "I have been considering language to be the enemy.

He hadn't enjoyed school all that much, but they could have warned him that language would prove overtaxing.

People daily speak a quilt of words, and continents and nations and tribes and even enemies dance all over your mouth when you speak. The tongue seems to know no race, no affiliation, no breed, no caste, no order, no genus, no lineage.

No way of knowing how language re-created a family. His own children didn't want to learn Spanish, when he had given everything to learn English.

She had learned the greatest trick of the interrogator. Remain silent, and they confessed everything just to fill the chasm of silence.

A border cop confessed: "I have a rule now. If it don't speak English, shoot it.

Minnie said, "Better not to ask." "That's our family in a nutshell." "You got that right.

Al término de esta última proyección, la quinta o sexta, se lanzó hacia mí, lleno de alegría, y me dijo: —¡Ya está, Luis, es formidable, lo he entendido todo! Ahora fui yo quien se quedó perplejo. La película narraba una historia extremadamente sencilla, a mi modo de ver. ¿Qué había en ella tan difícil de entender?

Pois é": uma maneira tipicamente brasileira de não ficar quieto e ao mesmo tempo não dizer nada.

FRASES A boa frase também é uma maneira de conviver com o inexprimível. Dá-se nome às coisas para domá-las.

Ninguém é nada sozinho, somos o nosso comportamento com o outro".

Yo vengo sin idiomas desde mi soledad, y sin idiomas voy hacia la tuya. No hay nada que decir, pero supongo que hablaremos desnudos sobre esto, algo después, quitándole importancia, avivando los ritmos del pasado, las cosas que están lejos y que ya no nos duelen.

La verdadera brevedad es saber callar cuando no hay nada que decir.

conducir es liderar, no es dar órdenes.

Natacha! ¿Cómo pensás que te voy a mentir?

Lo que veo es que cada vez hablás peor, repetiste mil veces las mismas palabras.

La gente lee en silencio, se mueve en silencio, hasta parece hablar en silencio

I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.

Dinner parties bring out the worst in everyone.

In just a few more years, the current homogenized 'voice' of business—the sound of mission statements and brochures—will seem as contrived and artificial as the language of the 18th century French court.…[C]ompanies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone."4

Thinking about how a form can be organized as a conversation instead of an interrogation can go a long way toward making new customers feel welcome.

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It's not because they speak the language better -- I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with having an intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.