Quotes About Communication

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

We speak with our lips to explain, with our throats to convince.

The art of conversation lies in listening

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

Emotion is contagious.

it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way...We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

Journalism equals intellectual male prostitution of speech and writing

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

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.'

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

ritual is called for because our soul communicates things to us that the body translates as need, or want, or absence. So we enter into ritual in order to respond to the call of the soul.

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

And things go unsaid soon get forgotten

I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.

Sephy told me once that I was the only one who could make her cry. I've never told this to her, or to anyone else for the matter, but it works the other way round as well." — callum mcgregor/noughts&crosses

Don't you think I'm beautiful, Callum?' Lynette whispered. 'yes' I replied truthfully 'very.

Maybe we are in different places …' 'No, we aren't. Not if we don't want to be, we aren't.' I willed Callum to look at me. 'I wish it was that simple.' 'It is.

Why had I thought of it that way? As a friendship both of us needed? That didn't make any sense at all.