Quotes About Communication

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.

When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

You don't have to say everything to say something.

Conversation can be a learning experience for everyone. I never hesitate to reach out when I'm in over my head, and I'll never hesitate to return the favor.

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

Yes, I can talk and think at the same time. Most people can, though I suppose you wouldn't know that from personal experience. Elena (Bitten)

I want everyone to be able to have the same experience through the music as me. It's important to get it out.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.