Quotes About Communication

But the balance of power is still tilted in favor of the doctor. When a patient tries to talk to a rushed doctor, wanting both assistance and agency, the conversation is often fraught on both sides.

As Virginia Woolf testified in On Being Ill, "English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. . . . The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.

A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth.

All we do in our lifetime is to scream in different ways to get attention in this dark universe!

Carry always your earplugs with you in case of emergency, like meeting with a politician!

Do not try to reach the masses! If you say something good and right, masses will reach you!

For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!

Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!

Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!

Praying is sending an SOS to the heavenly unknown.

Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!

Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.

Silent streets have many things to say.

Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God.

Talking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands!

There is a way up to the skies, up to the stars, up to the beyond, up the eternity. That way is creating a world where people can think and express their ideas freely! Seek no other way!

Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!

Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.

To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!

To speak with the shadow, you must know the language of the darkness!

We were once fish! We spent millions of years under the water in silence! That's why now we love talking continuously!

Whatever their ideas or ideologies or religions are, always get along well with people!

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'