Quotes About Communication

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

I was just telling the truth, but people always seem to think you're stark, staring mad when you do that.

Margaret Frith

Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate

Margaret Heffernan

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

I've found that all it usually takes to draw out an engineer is to ask a couple of technical questions and then remain calm while listening to the answers. Most people tend to take on a blank, frightened look as soon as they realize that a technical explanation is under way; if you can resist giving this reaction and simply listen, your engineer will open up and tell you everything you ever wanted to know.

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.

Few pleasures are as basic and satisfying as hearing a good story-unless it's the pleasure of writing one.

You won't forget that," Claire assured her. "I like things written down," Tabitha mumbled. "Then you've got them for good.

Vane diventano le parole ripetute troppe volte.

Eravamo abituati uno sguardo così, l'uno accanto all'altra in silenzio, non ci dispiaceva.

Piangere insieme, per una coppia, è un minuscolo, emblematico accadimento... è il respiro dell'altro che crepa nella tua gola.