Quotes About Communication

you should never be afraid to tell somebody you love him before its to late

What really matters in sex isn't the things you can measure; it's how people feel, which is a lot harder to explore, understand, measure, or fix.

If a man writes clearly enough," said Hemingway, "anyone can see if he fakes.

If you find it hard to describe your idea, don't fix your description. Fix your idea.

The ability to subtract features is the rare gift of the true communicator.

Uman…» ho cominciato. E in quel momento, lui si è girato verso di me e mi ha detto: «Perché sei ancora qui?» «Voleva che tu te ne andassi?» mi chiede l'ispettore Ryan. Scuoto la testa. «No. Non capiva perché non lo avessi lasciato»

The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven

Flag: What are you really up to? Waller: You want the big picture? Flag: No, I like being fed a steady stream of crap and kept in the dark like a mushroom.

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.

Soft and small voice communications with our associates make priceless friendships possible. I am appreciative of people who find no need to raise their voices as they try to impress or convince. It seems most people who argue and shout have ceased listening to what the small voice could powerfully contribute.

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

At that moment a word47 issued from the height. As Judas was standing there, he saw how the word came [down]. He asked the word, "Why have you come down?

Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.

She thought how sharp words could sting when they held the truth.

When she talks to Tripp, something nice happens inside of her: a vibration, a thrum. It's as if a tiny wind chime is suspended inside her soul, she thinks, and his words are the wind that makes it ring.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

The tongue am I of those who lived before me, as those that are to come will be the voice of my unspoken thoughts. And so who shall be applauded if the song be sweet, if the prophecy be true?

But there is one tree that for the footer of the mountain trails is voiceless; it speaks, no doubt, but it speaks only to the austere mountain heads, to the mindful wind and the watching stars. It speaks as men speak to one another and are not heard by the little ants crawling over their boots. This is the Big Tree, the Sequoia.

first recorded example of a man telling a woman to 'shut up';

Public speech was a—if not the—defining attribute of maleness. Or, to quote a well-known Roman slogan, the elite male citizen could be summed up as vir bonus dicendi peritus, 'a good man, skilled in speaking.' A woman speaking in public was, in most circumstances, by definition not a woman.

Do those words matter? Of course they do, because they underpin an idiom that acts to remove the authority, the force, even the humour from what women have to say. It is an idiom that effectively repositions women back into the domestic sphere (people 'whinge' over things like the washing up); it trivialises their words, or it 're-privatises' them.

Cicero's eloquence, even if only half understood, still informs the language of modern politics.