Quotes About Communication

That sounds like a pretty good place I said for something to say.' So much of what he said required no response, but if no one said anything, his words just hung there. The Last Days of California

Recently I realized that silent is an anagram for listen. It is the voice that comes from the silence that the writer or artist must listen to.

Don't talk too fast, you will trip on your words.

Arrietty used to make her 'e's' like little half-moons with a stroke in the middle-" "Well?" said Kate Mrs. May laughed and took up her work again. "My brother did too," she said.

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Suppose a developer has a conversation with a customer about details of a feature. The conversation should not be considered complete until it is expressed as a customer test.

leaders in many companies believe that developers should not talk to customers because this is a waste of valuable developer time.

the most successful development occurs when developers talk directly to customers or are part of business teams.

Set-based development means that you communicate constraints, not solutions.

Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

For I had felt too much and reasoned too little, hearing what I was ready to hear, not what had been said. There

Alexander offered him (Aristotle)a hand to mount the gangplank, and tried the effect of a smile. When the man returned it, it could be seen that smiling was what he would do best; he would not often be caught with his head back laughing. But he did look like a man who would answer questions.

Speak for me, Nikeratos. Someone's soul is always listening." Someone's always is, I suppose, if one only knew. Plato never forgot it.

A young man sat down beside him on the divan and, without any kind of preliminary, said, 'Is it a queer book?' 'No,' said Laurie. 'Oh,' said the young man, on a note of utter deflation. He got up and went away.

At twenty-three, one is not frightened off a conversation merely by the fear of its becoming intense.

I don't know what more there is to say, except this: that since one can't refuse to know oneself, and it must have happened eventually, I would rather it was through you than anyone else.

Metà dei guai del mondo sono causati da uomini non allenati a risentirsi per una affermazione fallace come per un insulto.

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.

It is not what a poem says with its mouth, it's what a poem does with its eyes.

I used to think I wrote because there was something I wanted to say. Then I thought, 'I will continue to write because I have not yet said what I wanted to say'; but I know now I continue to write because I have not yet heard what I have been listening to.

Extroverts need to know that sitting too close, standing too near, touching when touch is unwanted, or walking into a private room unannounced will drive introverts nuts and drain their energy.

Motivate your child to listen with words of support and love that let him know he is safe with you. Send your message in many different ways including talking, writing, drawing, and demonstrating. Touch your child lightly to help him attend to your instructions. Make sure you have his attention by making eye contact. Keep your message simple. Avoid asking a question if there really isn't a choice. Tell him what he can do. Limit the number of instructions you give at one time.