Quotes About Communication

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.

When they stepped out of the taxi and approached the hotel lobby, she mustered up the courage to take Nick's hand. He quickly let go, frowning at her. "I thought we were supposed to be married," she said, a little hurt. "We are. Five years, Elaine. No married couple holds hands after five years.

She could feel the emotional wedge between him and his father. It must be very hard for them to work together, she thought. Maybe she just didn't understand the ways of the super wealthy.

Love is dialougue, not monolougue

Peace is understanding, not quiet

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

It's all over, so let's not burden the telegraph system.

For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

An essential prerequisite for the reforms to which I gave the name of perestroika was glasnost or transparency, which gave people the possibility but also the right to speak the truth. How could reforms be put in train if one did not tell the truth about the actual situation, if people could not hear the truth about the past?

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

Sometimes ... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. (Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan)

if one is to confer successfully with foreigners, it is essential to know their ways of thinking and be able to put oneself in their place.

Különös az, ha nagy szerencse éri az embert, hogy az els? vágya (mert vágya még mindig marad, ha minden vágya betelt is) a közlés; a harsonákat szeretné megfúvatni, heroldok kiáltsák ki a nagy esetet, hallja az egész világ.

The English and German words are almost identical: "tact" and "takt." The cultural definitions, however, are about as similar as if they were "goose down" and "blitzkrieg.

She wants to paint the living room yellow. I have not the words.

The efficacy of an arbitrary personal attack is that it clears a path for the important issues.

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

All man's life among men is nothing more than a battle for the ears of others.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

We are not born knowing how to understand and express what is inside our souls. That kind of knowing ourselves requires contemplation and reflection. We have to learn to notice and be aware of our internal experiences, to search our hearts and find words for what is inside us. Being fully known and understood requires that we say aloud to someone else what is going on within our souls.