Quotes About Communication

Sin embargo, tras unos minutos, nos miramos y… no sé cómo explicar esto, de verdad, pero en cuanto nuestros ojos se encontraron, supe que no quería seguir sentada en público con Annie mientras simulábamos ser solo amigas. Y supe que ella tampoco quería. Y las dos supimos que ya no teníamos el problema de no querer lo mismo al mismo tiempo y de estar asustadas.

Liza-don't let it make any difference. It won't, will it? With us, I mean." "Of course it won't," I told her. But I was wrong. Six months of not writing-that's a difference. And so I lied to Annie. On top of everything else, I lied to Annie, too.

there we were sitting moodily on a cold bench saying "I'm sorry" to each other for things we couldn't help.

Nixon to Clinton: "When seeking advice from people who are more experienced than you, tell them what you plan to do first, and then ask for their reaction. Don't ask for their advice, and then ignore it. That way you save on bruised feelings.

As we are ready to give ear and credit to those we love, he believed all she said. From this time he became distant and reserved towards me, shunning my presence as much as possible; whereas, before, he was open and communicative to me as to his sister… What I had dreaded, I now perceived had come to pass. This was the loss of his favor and good opinion; to preserve which I had studied to gain his confidence by a ready compliance with his wishes.

We may not have computers or telephones or television, but we have books and conversations. And we talk to each other in person, not through e-mails and texts.

del mismo modo que examinarse, escucharse y quejarse forman parte del eterno femenino, no quejarse forma parte del eterno masculino

Merely knowing a word, moreover, doesn't necessarily make you capable of using it.

No, I stayed home. And yet, in one way or another -- by way of telephone conversations, letters, photographs, or simply memories -- all of these worlds were part of my day today.

Style, someone once said, is a marriage of love between an individual and his or her language.

le bilinguisme est une stimulation intellectuelle de tous les instants.

Le Neil qui parlait était amnésique. Sa main qui écrivait ne l'était pas. (p.80)

If you say the same word a million times will it lose its meaning?

The problem, of course, is that languages are not only languages. They're also worldviews -- and therefore, to some extent, untranslatable ...

Les langues ne sont pas seulement des langues : ce sont aussi des world views, c'est à dire des façons de voir et de comprendre le monde. Il y a de l'intraduisible là-dedans... et si vous avez plus d'une world view... vous n'en avez, d'une certaine façon, aucune.

The telephone is your theater, your stage. Your receiver is your curtain. When it goes up, make yourself a star.

Comedian Marty Feldman adds, "The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

Things got said, the kinds of embarrassing things that don't go away. Tempers ran high. My paternal grandfather's teak desk required a new panel, which never quite matched the others. Intellectual debate can be very hard on furniture.

Throw enough scientific gibberish at non-scientists and they always faltered.

Gail smiled. "A gracious concession. We're not much alike, dear heart." "Nothing alike." "So why—" "Oh, God, not this," Nan said. "Every lover I've ever had has run this program on me eventually. 'Why us?' Why not? And don't go thinking that by that I mean we're just a one night's roll-and-tickle, Gail. I like you. I just don't want to analyze why. Ask me something else.

Holding hands, hugging, or just sitting companionably together is an important way to continue to communicate.

can acknowledge and recognize your feelings—to yourself and to others—but you have a choice of when, where, and whether to express your feelings or to act on them.

And just in case you interpret boundary setting as callous and unloving, I want to be clear: naming my limits doesn't give me permission to walk all over anyone else's boundaries or refuse to be generous. In fact, I'm much more attuned to the boundaries of others now that I'm right with my own. And as for generosity, I'm now generous out of the desire to give rather than out of some fear that I won't be loved if I don't.

The parents in the room know that texting is actually the best way to communicate with your kids. It might be the only way to communicate with your kids.