Quotes About Communication

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

Talking about our problems is our greatest additction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first.

The more you say, the less people remember.

Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up.

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.