Quotes About Communication

Speak to me of love said St Francis to the almond tree and the tree blossomed.

I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.

After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: Develop a strong family narrative.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

It's family first for me and then business so the family has got to know what's going on with the business.

You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy.

I'd just say you hurt me and you hurt me only because you involved my family. But after that I'd say 'hey draw nearer to your family because that's exactly what I did.'

I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.