Quotes About Communication

Ware's—in the Gazette, and I'll continue to do

Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed.

Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not grasping what is going on. Montaigne encouraged us to blame the author. An incomprehensible prose-style is likely to have resulted more from laziness than cleverness; what reads easily is rarely so written...

What is it, Gus? A problem? Are you having a problem? That's one of your problems. You never tell me your problems.

Y qué anda haciendo ahora esa Myrna? —preguntó con suspicacia la señora Reilly—. ¿Cómo es que escribe tanto? Ella sí que necesitaba un buen baño, qué chica aquella, Dios. —La psique de Myrna sólo puede tratar con el agua en un contexto oral. —¿Qué? —¿Querrías tener la bondad de dejar de gritar como una pescadera y largarte? ¿No tienes una botella de moscatel haciéndose en el horno?

Su obligación es servir en silencio lo que le pidan. Si quisiéramos incluirle a usted en nuestra conversación, se lo habríamos indicado. Sepa que estamos discutiendo cuestiones personales de no poca importancia.

Already he was polishing a few carefully worded accusations designed to reduce his mother to repentance or, at least, confusion. He often had to keep her in her place.

Parce que, à sa façon de causer, on voyait bien que le gars était allé très longtemps à l'école. C'était probablement ce qui l'avait rendu dingue.

Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract.

C'é infatti un numero considerevole di persone di cultura convinte che qualsiasi sforzo riuscito per rendere le idee vive, intellegibili e interessanti sia una manifestazione di scarso rigore professionale. E' questa la fortezza dentro la quale regolarmente si rifugiano.

Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell 'em.

It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

I said a lot of things sarcastically that summer; that was my sarcastic summer

I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people agree that I was right. None of them ever accused me of being responsible for what had happened to Phineas, either because they could not believe it or because they could not understand it. I would have talked about that, but they would not, and I would not talk about Phineas in any other way.

If someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer, belittle them. It's better to be an asshole than look stupid.

For a generation of kids who grew up without a home phone, basic telephone etiquette is increasingly an issue.

It's hard to accuse someone of not working hard when he's got that earpiece as a constant reminder of how busy he might be. He

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!

You can't keep quiet about anything that's going on in the world, unless you're a monk. Sorry, monks! I didn't mean it!

Jealousy can wreck a marriage, try getting to know the postman.

E?er herkes ba?ka bir televizyon seti yerine bar?? isteseydi o zaman bar?? olurdu.

Nancy cut him off. "Larry wouldn't let her. We