Quotes About Communication

It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart

I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, to realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said, is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Ma il silenzio amoroso tra una madre e un figlio non è una dimensione solitaria.

los padres raramente conocen el lado romántico de la vida de sus hijos.

Mas o "Cadelão" não é negro? O negro boçal? Não diria "violada". É uma palavra que. Entende? Não usaria a palavra "violada"! maria

Anna hung up none the wiser but feeling better for having talked with like-minded people.

Before she'd had to deal with it, complaints about the one- to two-second delay before words said on one end trickled into an ear on the other had struck Anna as frivolous. Not so. She was amazed at how seemingly small a thing could cripple conversation.

She was forty before she realized that when she asked a man what he was thinking and he said, "Nothing," he wasn't lying.

Gossip, unless aimed or honed sharp like a weapon, was natural to human beings. It showed interestin oe's fellows, interest in the well being of the tribe. "Gossip was a way to learn taboos, pass on warnings, share the burden fo being human among many so the onus of bearing it alone would fall on no one person. " Molly said. From an Anna Pigeon Novel

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

I'd say the way to look at it is this. You took a lot of trouble answering letters from a stranger, and maybe some of them were rather stupid questions. I wouldn't know. The fact is that you made a friend, and now this friend's going to a little bit of trouble to help you. That's fair enough. Look at it that way.

You could have done something with newspapers. We didn't do it. No nation did, because we were all too silly. We liked our newspapers with pictures of beach girls and headlines about cases of indecent assault, and no Government was wise enough to stop us having them that way. But something might have been done with newspapers, if we'd been wise enough.

Our deepest feelings are precisely those we are least able to express, and even in the act of adoration, silence is our highest praise.

The spiritual man speaks to the natural man through the language of desire.

Everything in the world bears witness of the use or misuse of man's inner talking.

The vibratory correlate in the subject is not the entire transformation of the sentiment communicated. The gift transmitted to another is like the divine measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, so that after the five thousand are fed from the five loaves and two fish, twelve baskets full are left over.

To think is to speak low, to speak is to think aloud.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

Second, successful health reform will require a much more morally compelling, persuasive style of communication than Republicans are used to. Eight years of opposing Obama and the temptation to remain negative will be hard to unlearn, but it is essential to governing.

When television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air… and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

The Whites told only one side. Told it to please themselves. Told much that is not true. Only his own best deeds, only the worst deeds of the Indians, has the white man told