Quotes About Communication

As John Wesley once said, "God does nothing but in answer to prayer."1* Prayer is therefore not an option for mankind but a necessity. If we don't pray, heaven cannot interfere in earth's affairs. It is imperative that we take responsibility for the earth and determine what happens here by our prayer lives.

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.

When trying to communicate with each other, a husband and wife should be careful to make sure their voices and faces agree with their words.

It is not enough just to know who we love; we need to know what we love. We need to know why we love the person we love. This is critically important for building a happy and successful marriage.

Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.

How someone else perceives and understands us depends only 7 percent on what we say, 38 percent on how we say it, and 55 percent on what we are doing when we say it.

I recently broke up with my tractor provider. I was scared to do it in person, so I just sent a John Deere letter.

Finding A Way I'd like you for a friend. I'd like to find the way of asking you to be my friend. I don't know what to say. What would you like to hear? What is it I can do? There has to be some word, some look Connecting me to you.

Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken.

My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.

Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body.

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A man says: "I love you - will you marry me?" What he really means is: "Will you come to look after my house, do my mending, bear my children, bring them up, cook for me when necessary, and see that the plumbing is in perfect order? I shall give you board and clothes, though you may have to speak several times about the clothes, and an occasional pat on the cheek.

When a man seeks a woman's society it is because he has need of her, not because he thinks she has need of him;

Listen with your eyes because here you cannot decipher what is said out of the effort of mouths.

And the simple act of listening is crucial to the concept of language, more crucial even than reading and writing, and language in turn is crucial to human society.

I do not speak Kiowa, and I never understood her prayers, but there was something inherently sad in the sound, some merest hesitation upon the syllables of sorrow.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things. By means of words can a man deal with the world on equal terms. And the word is sacred. A man's name is his own; he can keep it or give it away as he likes.

Metaphors are so prevalent that if one were to specifically look out for them it would spoil completely one's reading and listening, and thus detract from the author's purpose.

The word 'metaphor' itself can be used in a non-literal way.

Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.

All this means that we are called to be people who learn to hear God's voice speaking today within the ancient text, and who become vessels of that living word in the world around us.

so many theological terms, words like 'monotheism' are late constructs, convenient shorthands for sentences with verbs in them, and that sentences with verbs in them are the real stuff of theology

There are five language-sets in particular which they employed for this purpose. Briefly, they are as follows: Wisdom, Torah, Spirit, Word and Shekinah