Quotes About Communication

Don't say it...I've seen too many loves sundered by too much needless honesty.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

There's times I'd rather kill you than listen to your honesty.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

I should stitch my mouth shut. Honesty is a compulsion that's damned me more than once. But I just can't hold it in anymore. The words build and explode out of me like an uncontainable sneeze.

You can say no if that is more truthful than a resentful yes.

being honest to the people around you is the best thing you ever do to them, but expecting the same from them is the worst thing you ever do to yourself

Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest.

The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.

A tear cringed off his cheek and stained her writing on the paper. He didn't wipe it, men must be honest and transparent, they should never wipe their tears.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

Keeping secrets from your father will only lead to trouble.

Why would you ever premedicate honesty? To hesitate is to overthink how you feel. A blurted out answer is usually the most genuine.

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'