Quotes About Communication

Husbands, in general, tend to complain a lot

Una pareja se compone de dos personas autónomas, ¡no es una amalgama única, por Dios!

Sucede que a veces en el matrimonio las palabras se gastan, que a fuerza de repetirlas van vaciándose lentamente, perdiendo su sentido. No hay caso en volver a emplearlas, el significado de ellas ya no dice lo que semánticamente debiera decir. La pareja puede ser una instancia involuntaria de pérdida de lenguaje.

Never again will I be a receptacle for my husband's trash. Another human being, because he lives with you, because he entered a certain alliance called marriage, believes he can use you as a place to put his scraps, be they his rages, his failures, his frustrations, his fears, his insecurities.

Parece que los hombres viven las relaciones y son las mujeres las que las piensan

I never dreamed that one day it would be one of my favorite everyday words. Fuck this, fucking that, don't give a fuck. I love it. It's perfect for emphasis!

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

Everybody is convinced they have seen something others have not seen, and they delude themselves that they have thought things that other have it thought, but this is just because someone has taken the trouble to tell an ordinary story in an extraordinary way.

Talking to my mother was about as much fun as chewing a ball of tinfoil with a mouthful of fillings.

Even our phone calls were like crawling naked across a field of broken glass.

Counsel's sarcasm is inappropriate.

one here can tell me anything." Eric put his hands in his pockets, then looked away. "What? What?

He's not 'people,' Melia. He's a reporter.

language and attitude

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

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I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

Accustom yourself to attend carefully to what is said by another, and as much as it is possible, try to inhabit the speaker's mind.

Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.

The hardest thing about being a manager is realizing that your people will not do things the way that you would. But get used to it. Because if you try to force them to, then two things happen. They become resentful — they don't want to do it. And they become dependent — they can't do it. Neither of these is terribly productive for the long haul.

MICHAEL: Maybe just this: A manager has got to remember that he is on stage every day. His people are watching him. Everything he does, everything he says, and the way he says it, sends off clues to his employees. These clues affect performance. So never forget you are on that stage.

Art does many things, but for me where art is at its best is in providing a window into the way another mind works.