Quotes About Communication

why people who have been unfaithful to their partners are prone to trivializing their affairs.

No important relationship survives if trust is totally lost.

Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.

People also smile when they are miserable.

People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people's actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another.

can you tell when a politician is lying? When he moves his lips!

Lying is such a central characteristic of life that better understanding of it is relevant to almost all human affairs.

It is hard not to reciprocate a smile; people do so even if the smile they reciprocate is one shown in a photograph. People enjoy looking at most smiles, a fact well known to advertisers.

The behavioral clues in face, body, voice, and manner of speaking are not signs of lying per se. They may be signs of emotions that don't fit with what is being said. Or they may be signs that the suspect is thinking about what he is saying before he says it. They are flags marking areas which need to be explored.

when they were, in fact, lying. They were taken in by the false expressions and ignored the expressions that leaked the true feelings. When people lie, their most evident, easy-to-see expressions, which people pay most attention to, are often the false ones. The subtle signs

If Christians, in other words, only talk and never listen, they're not very good Christians.

My truth" becomes opposed to, or destructive of, "your truth." To return to the image I already used: when we take the tropical bird of religious language and put it in a cage, it becomes a bird of prey.

And this power in their teaching had to do, first of all, with the content of what they taught – that is, with the way "what they said" made clear "what really is.

Father Hugo M. Enomiya-Lassalle, a German Jesuit who spent most of his life in Japan and became a Zen teacher, said somewhere that the precondition for addressing God as a "you" is the realization that we shouldn't.

In real interreligious dialogue, heart speaks to heart. Only so can persons from differing traditions really "hear" each other.

If Mystery is the goal and content of all religious experience, then Silence is a necessary means of letting Mystery speak.

The system needs to get right to the bottom line and remain very transparent in terms of its format, structure, and intent.

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

When ... asked what I am writing, I have answered, "A book about social class in America," ... It is if I had said, "I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

It has been said with some truth that religion is, basically, humankind's attempt to communicate with the weather.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

Where there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

they were assisted by the new technological invention of the telephone (that enemy of reflection, which became increasingly accepted as as means of communication) . . .