Quotes About Communication

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However beautiful a song may be, it is just a tune to those who do not understand its meaning.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

Every word you add dilutes the sentence.

The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.

Pero cuando se habla, no se mira. Los charlatanes nunca ven nada.

It has been said ever since that the Brankoviches of Erdély count in Tzintzar, lie in Walachian, are silent in Greek, sing hymns in Russian, are cleverest in Turkish and speak their mother tongue --Serbian-- only when they intend to kill.

Reading is really like trying to hit one tossed stone with another; the consonants are the stones, the vowels their velocity.

How easily language makes one remember something that that language neither says nor wants to say and that would never occur to you, no matter what you are told.

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

congressman was a hog that could understand only a blow on the snout.

A woman is a person who reaches for a chair when she answers the telephone.

Research has documented the healing power of confiding in others. James W. Pennebaker's research on the correlation between suppressing our stories and illness, on the one hand, and telling our stories and increased health, on the other, is especially compelling and well researched.11 As Russ himself later said: "Nothing got better for me until I began to talk about it.

She wished she had something like baseball that she could talk about with her daughter—a safe subject they could visit without subtext or aggression.

It was always better to say less.

It was his way to ask many questions when he wanted to know someone's mind. Most people told you their thoughts in words and later confirmed them in actions.

Her silence didn't reflect her intelligence level, contrary to the American view that good talkers were smarter.

She didn't mean to be critical, but after the words came from her mouth, they sounded harsh, and she was sorry.

The Bible said that a wise person must rein in his tongue. Not everything you wanted to say should be said.

That evening, when Noa did not call her, she realized that she had not given him her home number in Yokohama. In the morning, Hansu phoned her. Noa had shot himself a few minutes after she'd left his office.