Quotes About Communication

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

When you're in love with someone, you want to talk about every single thing in existence with them- while simultaneously saying nothing and just enjoying their presence.

Las discusiones a nivel superficial alimentadas con ira pueden durar por días y son completamente inefectivas, pero cuando resuelven la verdadera raíz del problema, todos esos asuntos superficiales empiezan a desaparecer. Usted

What was Ted Kennedy up to in May 1983 with that offer to Yuri Andropov via the KGB?

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

If the first requirement of a civilisation is the possession of its own language, the second must be the pursuit of a literary tradition. Books are, in historian Barbara Tuchman's words, the carriers of civilisation.

The Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's….ten years from now, the phrase "information economy" will sound silly. (1997)

It is better to let people think you are a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Lately she'd been charting Bobby's moods like a meteorologist watching tropical storms. Something was bothering him, and he wasn't talking.

Men generally don't do any self-examining unless they get criticized by a woman first.

Four Horsemen: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling.

When the woman you love is angry, it's best to give her space, time, and copious quantities of wine.

Miguel? The firm messenger?" "He can tote the mail. Now what's so urgent?

Getting Steve to open up was a lot like opening a jar of martini olives. It helps if you bang on his lid a few times.

The Four Horsemen that destroy relationships. Criticism. Contempt. Defensiveness. Stonewalling.

All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

When we were kids we always used to say, 'Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.' When John died, I thought, 'Well, maybe we'll get a message,' because I know he knew the deal. I haven't had a message from John.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you.

As a designer, you have to think in time and see things in sequence. You have to see information as a narrative form - Paul Mijksenaar quoted by Kim Baer

And just getting into bed with somebody wasn't the magic solution, because people could hide their terrors in pure technique—depersonalizing so completely the body embraced that they felt nothing at all.

If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks. The erotic can be a window into the deepest core of feeling, but more and more doesn't get you there.

How do you think poetry helps people? he'd ask, wanting the whole thing quantified so he could compare it to digging wells in the Peace Corps.