Quotes About Communication

Contrary to what you obviously believe, I don't spend my hours thinking up ways to annoy you,' Troy snaps. 'Actually, I don't think of you at all, so could you miss me with your bullshit, please?

Mr Corsa threatened that he was going to send a letter home to my mum and e-mail my dad.

Don't put words in my mouth. I'm sick of people putting words in my mouth.

You want to come in my life, the door is open. You want to get out of my life, the door is open. Just one request. Don't stand in the door, you're blocking the traffic

Wir wollen reden zu dieser Welt, kein halbes, sondern ein ganzes Wort, ein mutiges Wort, ein christliches Wort.

Wer nicht lange und geduldig zuhören kann, der wird am Andern immer vorbeireden und es selbst schließlich gar nicht mehr merken.

Das rechte Wort kommt aus dem Schweigen, und das rechte Schweigen kommt aus dem Wort.

I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked - Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both (only the techies came in English).

I made sure we fucked whenever the conversations got too emotional or too long - we weren't lesbians, after all.

There was no aphrodisiac more powerful than talking, no seduction more effective than curiosity.

In a single figure a symbol may both reveal and conceal, for to the wise the subject of the symbol is obvious, while to the ignorant the figure remains inscrutable.

Words are vehicles of ideas, and unless they are understood properly misunderstanding is inevitable.

What use is a good book...if you cannot share your pleasure in it with another?

NEOLOGISMO Beijo pouco, falo menos ainda. Mas invento palavras Que traduzem a ternura mais funda E mais cotidiana. Inventei, por exemplo, o verbo teadorar. Intransitivo: Teadoro, Teodora.

the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.

Yet, the main issue is not the shaping of the minds by explicit messages in the media, but the absence of a given content in the media.

Manuel Castells

Trump responded to all this with scorn, lies and personal attacks, establishing a whole new means of presidential communication: governance by Twitter.

things changed when the debate broadened out to include the general public at large, and not just the political classes.

One of the most important aspects of being verbally assertive is to be persistent and to keep saying what you want over and over again without getting angry, irritated, or loud.

If you do not recognize your assertive right to choose to be responsible only for yourself, other people can and will manipulate you into doing what they want by presenting their own problems to you as if they were your problems.

You do not respond to your critic's statements of wrongdoing with denial, defensiveness, or countermanipulation with criticisms of your own. Instead, you break the manipulative cycle by actively prompting further criticism about yourself or by prompting more information about statements of "wrongdoing" from the critical person in an unemotional, low-key manner.

FOGGING is a very effective skill for desensitizing you to criticism and actually reducing the frequency of criticism from others. It rapidly sets up a psychological distance, boundary lines between you and the person you FOG.

The major stumbling block for coping well with our conflicts in living with each other is set up when we interfere with another person's decision-making process, when we routinely manipulate our fellow man's wants by making him feel anxiously threatened, guilty, or ignorant.