Quotes About Communication

We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

All real life is meeting.

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me

Whoever says You does not have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation.

If a man wishes to guide the people in his house the right way, he must not grow angry at them. For anger does not only make one's soul impure; it transfers impurity to the souls of those with whom one is angry.

The basic word I-You can only be spoken with one's whole being. The basic word I-It can never be spoken with one's whole being.

The third (sphere in which the world of relation arises): Life with spiritual beings. Here the relations is wrapped in a cloud but reveals itself, it lacks but creates language. We hear no You and yet addressed; we answer - creating, thinking, acting: with our being we speak the basic word, unable to say You with our mouth. Bt how can we incorporate into the world of the basic word that lies outside language?

But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?

The only possible relationship with God is to address him and to be addressed by him, here and now—or, as Buber puts it, in the present.

In order to speak to the world what I have heard, I am not bound to step into the street. I may remain standing in the door of my ancestral house. …

The basic word I-You can only be spoken with one's whole being.

We say 'far away'; the Zulu has for that a word which means, in our sentence form, 'There where someone cries out: "Oh mother, I am lost." ' The Fuegian soars above our analytic wisdom with a seven-syllabled word whose precise meaning is, 'They stare at one another, each waiting for the other to volunteer to do what both wish, but are not able to do.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

All real living is meeting.

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.

All actual life is encounter.

He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years.

Between the intention and the act, life was often a tale told to the deaf. •

Prefer the active voice unless there's a good reason for using the passive

Use clear, crisp, lively verbs to express the actions in your document, and avoid using noun strings.

More people fear snakes than full stops, so they recoil when a long sentence comes hissing across the page.

Put accurate punctuation at the heart of your writing.