Quotes About Communication

You should never refer to the clients as targets; you don't want to get confused at the wrong moment.

Yes, I'm fine, I'd sent her over the feed. It's a good thing I don't bleed like a human because hostile marine fauna was about all this situation needed. I've got everything under fucking control, okay. "No, it says it's fine," I heard her relaying to the others on our comm. "Well, yes, it's furious.")

within easy unwanted talking range.

He can't hear me," Jai retorted. But it was better to present a cool united front to Canon Hain, not look as if they had been arguing like children. Especially if they had been arguing like children.

The kinet believed that if something was worth saying once, it was worth saying a few more times, but Jai had long recognized that this was not the way of other species. She promised, "I'll stop.

Attacker is still pulling us toward the wormhole," Mihail announced on comm, not sounding too much like someone who was restraining the urge to scream a little.

Yes, talk to Murderbot about its feelings. The idea was so painful I dropped to 97 percent efficiency.

I don't make threats, I'm just telling you what I'm going to do.

can't do even the half-assed version of this stupid job if I have to talk to humans.

Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad.

No hugging," I warned her. It was in our contract. "Do you need emotional support? Do you want me to call someone?

Ramad's expression tightened. Kai knew what he was thinking and also wished there was a way to make Dahin shut up.

Giliead stepped up beside Ilias, leaning his hip on the railing. He watched Ander's retreat grimly, saying in a low voice, "He wanted you to ask him first if we could try that cove, instead of just telling the crewman." Ilias snorted. Good warleaders let everyone do their jobs instead of finding excuses to prove they were in charge.

People so rarely talked about themselves accurately. They either made too much or too little out of everything. It seemed to Rose that you got to know people much more thoroughly by hearing what they thought and what they did, and then extrapolating the rest as a kind of interesting, intellectual puzzle. All you had to do was listen to the vehemence and passion with which a person talked about things other than himself or herself, and there the person was.

Grannie Jane raised an eyebrow. "A word of advice, Agatha dear, as you go forward into the world. Remember at all times with whom you are speaking and how your words may be interpreted by those hearing them.

He politely breathed up my nose. I had learned many years ago that this is the preferred greeting of most horses. They like to breathe up your nose. Especially when you're first introduced. And then, to be polite, you must breathe back up theirs.

If nature intended us to talk more than listen, she would have given us two mouths and one ear. —ANONYMOUS

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. —MARGARET MEAD

you must set her free. If you try to control her, she will hate you for it and you will lose her.

must honor her, trust her and listen to her. Most of all, he must be willing to let her go.

You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full contact -- all that?

You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that?

All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.