Quotes About Communication

Because we are in the same business, he didn't have to explain that "typo" is short for "typographical error." If Helena had come out, we would have had to stop using our industry lingo so that she could understand us

I like to write with people I have a relationship with otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

There's no need to apologise, Justine,' he said tautly. 'No need at all.' 'Good, because I didn't mean to. It's a habit with females, that's all, saying sorry all the time when there's absolutely no need. . .

La lengua de la infelicidad, esa en la que están escritos todos los libros verdaderos.

Don't let a busy life or electronic communication gadgets be your excuse for excess solitude - it's a talent, but a rare one, to make yourself laugh.

Erica Jong believes "gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.

the skills of good listening are generally not taught to trainees in the art of psychotherapy. The would-be therapist learns to theorize and analyze, to diagnose and prognosticate, to interpret and interrogate. But not to listen.

Do not answer with the answer of silence! Do not attack one who does not attack you.

If you leave the schoolhouse when midday is called and go roaming in the streets, all will scold you in the end. When an official sends you with a message, Tell it as he told it, Don't omit, don't add to it. He who neglects to praise, his name will not endure ; he who is skilled in all his conduct, from him nothing is hidden, he is not 'opposed anywhere.

A man's mouth can save him. His speech makes one forgive him.

When you drink with a drunkard. Take when his heart is content. THE INSTRUCTION ADDRESSED TO KAGEMNI Papyrus Prisse, pp. 1-2 Fragment

Let the eyes see, let the heart take notice. Be not harsh in your power, lest trouble befall you. Pass over a matter, it becomes two. He who eats tastes; one addressed answers. It is the sleeper who sees the dream; and a judge who deserves punishment is a model for the (evil) doer.

Speech falls on the heart like fire, One cannot endure the word of mouth.

A man asked for an early meal. His wife said: "It is for supper.

Lo, all maidservants are rude in their speech, When the mistress speaks it irks the servants.

Had I raised my voice at that time, To save me from the pain I am in!

No, Ernie, says Agata, there's no plot, we're only women talking.

My dad loved the shit out of her and hardly ever knew what to say to her and she loved the shit out right back out of him and filled the silent part of their lives with books and coffee and other things.

The truth is, I don't have a catchy method of conversing and yet unfortunately suffer of a minute to minute basis the agony of the unexpressed thought.

Man sollte nie jemanden anlachen, der vorher nicht wenigstens gelächelt hat.

Although a poem arises when there's nothing else to be done, although a poem is a last attempt at order when one can't stand the disorder any longer, although poets are most needed when freedom, vitamin C, communications, laws and hypertension therapy are also most needed, although to be an artist is to fail and art is fidelity to failure, as Samuel Beckett says, a poem is not one of the last but of the first things of man.

I ako ti u ovaj tren ne progovoriš, ako ne progovoriš neposredno, neposredno, iskreno, ja ?u od te tvoje konvencionalnosti poludjeti ovdje, na ovome mjestu! Meni je tako užasno, glava mi je tako strašno ogromna, tako tamna, i sve je u meni tamno, a ti si tako neistinit, tako patvoren, tako hladan, dalek, tako pasivno strašan(...).

I ako ti u ovaj tren ne progovoriš, ako ne progovoriš neposredno, neposredno, iskreno, ja ?u od te tvoje konvencionalnosti poludjeti ovdje, na ovome mjestu!