Quotes About Communication

Like all lovers, they spoke much of themselves, as if they might thereby understand the world which made them possible.

For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies.

He listened to his words fall as if from the mouth of another, and watched his father's face, which received those words as a stone receives the repeated blows of a fist.

Setelah manusia menghasilkan banyak uang, dia biasanya menjadi pendengar yang buruk.

Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.

Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.

What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience—even if you risk angering or hurting that person—you are offering the most valuable gift of all.

It took me a long time to understand that even a stubborn mule responds to gentleness.

reminder that gentleness can fix in a moment what an hour of shouting fails to achieve.

Insist that Members of Your Team Share the "Ball"—Information, Ideas, and More.

how I conveyed information was often as important as the information itself.

Why does the person with the least to say usually take the longest to say it?

there would be times when we disagreed but there would never be times when we had to be disagreeable.

The trick to learning Chinese is to always carry the flashcards into work every time, and also to write Chinese letters to your children.

FAR 91.21 – You must determine that the iPad, as a portable electronic device, does not cause interference in the airplane's communication or navigation equipment.

I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

we had talked ourselves into silence.

because if there was one thing he didn't like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn't let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big, that's what he thought...

To compose poetry is about listening, ...not to contrive, it is, so to speak, about bringing forth something that already exists-this is why when one reads great poetry, when often gets this 'I-new-all-of-this-already, I-just-didn't-express-it' feeling. Language listens to itself.

he walks into the hall and the old walls there settle into place all around him and say something to him, the same way they always have, he thinks, it's always like that, whether he notices it and thinks about it or not the walls are there, and it is as if silent voices are speaking from them, as if a big tongue is there in the walls and this tongue is saying something that can never be said with words ...

It is healing simply to be heard, to be met, to be seen, to be known.

The possibility of attaining harmony in communication applies to large collections of people, such as nations, governments, and even to political parties, as well as to individuals, once they realize the price of treating the other as the enemy, and therefore less than human.

Writing is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles.

I don't talk about the mountain I talk to the mountain because my boss broke down the China wall of those days (JERICHO) with mere word....