Quotes About Communication

I want to come with you, but first you've got to give me a few straight answers." "It's against my nature, but I'll try.

If she takes me to task over this, shall I tell her you attacked the trees?" "We had no treaty with the forest," Saruel replied serenely.

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

An apology is the superglue of life! It can repair just about anything!!

Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking.

The only thing that kept me away was the knowledge that trust cannot be demanded. It must be freely given or it's meaningless.

SECRET #16 If you're not careful, you can lose a friend even faster than you made one.

known for millenniums, yet people today walk around wearing headphones because they can't stand to know their neighbors

Yours is... il sent comme lavande." Is that French for 'You stink'?" It means 'lavender'." Huh." She sniffed at her wrist. "I thought I smelled more like a grape Popsicle.

Understanding your boss is one of the best investments you can make in your own career.

You can't fool a child. She would sense the lack of warmth between us, feel the resentment, and hear the silences . . .

It's hard to say no to a grown-up lady who smiles at you.

we're inclined to say what we think, even when we have not thought very much.

Roosevelt had belittled his closest ally, a man who greatly admired him. In the process, the president sent a very different message than he intended. How could the ever suspicious Stalin be expected to trust these men when they showed no loyalty to each other?

I lower my head so that you don't see my eyes, to deny you the joy of an exchanged glance,

If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.

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other brave get …" He gave Boone's head a sharp, possessive pat and straightened up. "Dance finish. You take dead braves, plasstic. Put in ground." "Little Bear, I can't now. I must go with Emma. Did—did you see her? She—she saw you. I have to make sure she—helps, and doesn't tell.

Few subjects are inherently dull: language is where dullness or liveliness resides.

But living amid so many words, I overestimated their power and breadth. The world does not turn on words alone; it only seems to if the eye and mind are saturated with them.

the tongue, for instance, is privileged with information indifferent to words.

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.

Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.