Quotes About Communication

A great speech is literature.

Hubert Humphrey's wife is said to have advised him: "Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable.

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

Hitting is never the best way to teach a child. Even in the case of real danger - as when a child runs out into the road - you can grab him, sit him down, look him in the eyes, and tell him why he must never do that again. The panic in your voice will communicate your message much more effectively than any spanking. You can be dramatic without being abusive.

Leaving something unnamed makes it quite literally unspeakable: a void, an absence, a taboo.

Fully half the girls had experienced something along a spectrum of coercion to rape. Those stories were agonizing; equally upsetting, only two had previously told another adult what had happened.

The door opened. "We're here," said Mrs. Rogers. Aunt Myra came in. "Now!" said Amelia Bedelia. "Greetings, greetings, greetings," said the three children. "What's that about?" said Mrs. Rogers. "You said to greet Aunt Myra with Carols," said Amelia Bedelia. "Here's Carol Lee, Carol Green, and Carol Lake." "What lovely Carols," said Aunt Myra. "Thank you.

As mentioned earlier, the primary way to create and sustain excitement in a sexual relationship is through honesty. It provides a sense of newness and surprise that can't be matched by any of the standard gimmicks for improving a couple's sex life. NOT

motive: being motivated by a desire to improve the relationship • timing: considering the best time to have a conversation • location: choosing surroundings that support communication • attitude: having an attitude conducive to a productive discussion • responsiveness: listening in such a way as to encourage honesty • expectations: openness to whatever results from this effort

People need to continue talking until they get enough understanding to be able to genuinely leave it behind.

Careful, Sandi. You're about to let your bulldog mouth overload your bird-dog bite.

The jangle of the telephone rousted Matt out of a deep sleep. He never dreamed. Dreams were too messy.

Matt felt vindicated. See . If he'd rushed things and let his passion get the upper hand he might not have learned whether she like beef.

You can say the same thing nicely.

human beings interested her so much that it must always be an advantage to meet another one.

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.

When you are able to be with a person and there is no need to talk, something has happened.

I find this miraculous. I never cease to wonder at it. That words are more durable than anything...

She'd just spent the last hours engaged in endless small talk. Now, when it mattered so much, she seemed to have no words to say, or even breath to speak them with. All her life she'd always had such trouble with words: finding them and losing them, hoarding them and wasting them.

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

Has any non-dipshit man ever used the word "ladies" not followed by the word "room"?

Proselytizing is a moral imperative and feeds the marketplace of ideas. I want to hear everyone tell the truth as they see it. I want to learn from everyone.

Even one person's misunderstanding [of a blue joke] may not be worth the next guy's laugh.

we don't have a twenty-letter alphabet, we have a twenty-six-letter alphabet." And then I say, "Oh, I guess I left out U R A Q T!" And then you say, "That's still only twenty-five." And I say, "I'll give you the D later.