Quotes About Communication

The result of my not caring so much about what I say allows me to care more about how I say it. P. 4

My barometer for making friends is that you can't get to know someone by hearing about everything they like—you need to hear about what they don't like. It's only when you are willing to go out on a limb by admitting you're not a fan of something that you're vulnerable enough to earn my trust.

My mom and I have always had issues.

Mothers-in-law know all sorts of things that husbands are too stupid to figure out.

contact between people is more important than convenience.

If you don,t understand my silence . How you will understand my words.

We are de facto diplomats who have to be able to communicate with anyone. But this doesn't mean we are doormats.

It's [the word "sorry"] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.

We all know it's safer to beat up on people who won't retaliate,' he told her, 'but it's a quick way to lose friends. You need to find ways of dealing with confrontation when it happens.

He tried to press the machine into my hands, but I stepped back. He was getting too close, and besides, I didn't know what this meant. Was he trying to sell me the machine? Was he giving it to me? I had heard that in America, if a girl accepted a ring from a boy, it meant she would marry him. What about accepting a tape-playing machine? Did it mean I might have to dance with him?

She withdrew into herself, First writing just for one, Then touching thousands. She incarnated ghosts, hurt, and joy Into paper-and-ink stories of wonder

In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

What do you need to give me what I need?"... You're negotiating with your teenager not because you're a wimp, or because you're afraid of her, or because you don't care. No, you're negotiating with your teenager because imposing rules makes bad relationships worse, while negotiating solutions makes good relationships better.

He may bring home the bacon, but he won't be bringing home your bacon.

If there's something your partner does that makes your relationship too bad to stay in, and he acknowledges it, but he's in fact unwilling to do anything about it, and if his unwillingness has been clear for at least six months, you'll be happier if you leave.

put up an inner barrier that allowed him to not seem to experience the feelings his partner's putdowns must have been stimulating in him.

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the answer to the question. If you don't know anyone, call the operator and tell him. Most people don't know that the operator has to listen, it is a law. Also, the postman is not allowed to go inside your house, but you can talk to him on public property for up to four minutes or until he wants to go, whichever comes first.

He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done. I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.

It occurred to me that everyone's story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done.