Quotes About Communication

Colin: "1 dinna understand why we canna just go to bed and have sex." He looked truly puzzled.

Way to defuse a situation. It's tough to enjoy a good bloodbath in the middle of a PowerPoint presentation.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

A man does like it when a woman tries, especially when she's foreign to him, as his wife had become the moment he'd decided to tell her he was leaving.

The only person who can really hurt you in life is a husband.

There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.

The best listeners listen between the lines.

being unable to initiate and maintain satisfying and enduring relationships; being unable to say no and stick to it; and other negative behaviors and attitudes with others as well as with the self-aborbed parent. Some try to work through their issues or concerns with mental health professionals, but find that it is just about impossible to adequately describe what their formative years were like.

Your parent is not open to your thoughts, feelings, and ideas; does not relate to or care about your feelings; does not feel a need to change anything about himself; and can become enraged that you think that he is less than perfect. You cannot win, or even make any inroads into your parent's self-absorption.

Communication is the real work of leadership.

To the tongue which bringeth thee words without reason, the answer that best beseemeth thee is?silence.

Por vezes Mary falava e Fara escutava uma efusão de gaélico que não compreendia; por vezes era Fara que falava a Língua para uma Mary completamente em branco. Curiosamente, as palavras não eram importantes. O que importava era a representação das emoções nas expressões do rosto, a expressividade das mãos, o que a voz transmitia, segredos que os olhos contavam

Una palabra serena a un hombre sensato vale más que un año de súplicas a un tonto.

people can say all kinds of things without ever opening their mouths...

But then isn't that what marriage is, two people fighting for land rights to the same six inches?

The day I sobered up, I stopped talking," he says. "What was there to say? You need hope to form a thought. It takes—I don't know—optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because, really, what's the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make what we say to each other? Or what we do, for that matter?" "There's a name for that," she says. "It's called depression.

You need hope to form a thought. It takes—I don't know—optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because, really, what's the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make what we say to each other?

It takes—I don't know—optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because, really, what's the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make what we say to each other? Or what we do, for that matter?" "There's a name for that," she says. "It's called depression.

Though the language spoken here appears to be the same, the meaning of each word can be vastly different. What they mean when they say freedom. What they mean when they say equal. What they mean when they say fair.

His job is to communicate information and ideas, and how is he supposed to do that when language itself has become meaningless?

A good basic guideline for our speech (in relation to Ethical Conduct) is to reflect whether what we are saying is both true and useful. There may be times when we are honest in what we say, but our words are too brutal or harsh. And there may be other times when we are deliberately being kind with the words we choose, but what we are saying is not totally true.

A good basic guideline for our speech is to reflect on whether what we are saying is both true and useful. There may be times when we are honest in what we say, but our words are too brutal or harsh. And there may be other times when we are deliberately being kind with the words we choose, but what we are saying is not totally true.

Jack Canfield taught me two of the most brilliant questions I've ever seen in human relations. 'On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate our relationship? What can I do to make it a 10?

We thus make a fundamental distinction between the competence (the speaker-hearer's knowledge of his language) and performance (the actual use of language in concrete situations).