Quotes About Communication

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.

It's so much fun to interact together.

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

When we open our heart up to someone, that energy, of course, comes into us.

Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.

Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about.

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.

I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously.

I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths.

I've just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don't think I'm ahead of anybody.

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?