Quotes About Communication

None talked that common, false, cold, hollow talk which makes the heart deny the yes it breathes.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, which is the measure of the universe.

His lips in truth-entangling lines which smiled he lie his tongue disdained to speak.

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.

Most kids are never told about one of life's most effective weapons: when to get pissed as hell. Show it. And then mean it.

Perhaps success should not mean that you have nothing to say to anyone, no time for anybody, and not a moment left in your calendar for someone whom you might suddenly realize you love.

The most beautiful man in the world says everything with his eyes, and the rest with his hands and mouth.

There may be a point in your life in which you are drowning so fast and fighting it so furiously that you don't have the strength left to call out for help. At that point don't expect one of your friends to jump into the water, if you've spent most of your life instructing them to mind their own business.

Three great ways to lose a lover: Talk to him the way your mother talked to your father. Berate him in public because everybody loves an audience. Contrast him to your friends, and compare him with his predecessors.

To extend oneself does not necessarily mean to have an erection.

Schoenhals calls the rigidity of tifa a "form of power." This simple claim has greater profundity than may appear on the surface. In an obvious sense, it means that holders of power can insist that people say certain things in certain ways and expect that, over time, thought and behavior will follow.

But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the Day of Judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." – MATTHEW 12:36-37

God revealed Himself progressively through visions, dreams, visible manifestations and through His many names.

Epigrams succeed where epics fail.

A proverb is an ornament to language.

Get your arm off of me: I'm trying to listen for shoulder-worms in your rotator cuff.

I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.

It took him one minute to write. Bill stood over him, watching. "I don't know how you do that," he said. "Like the words are already inside the pen." "It's just what's in your brain," Charley said. "The way the words come to you naturally is the best way to put them down." Bill said, "The things in my head don't come in words.

Jesus is what God sounds like. He's literally the "living Word of God." Hearing his voice is not so much a skill we must master, therefore, as a master we must meet.

Emily Dickinson, he "tells it slant." Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind—

Rob's story reminds me that how we listen is sometimes (always?) more important than what is said. Maybe that's why Jesus was forever asking people if they had ears to hear what he was saying. And I suspect it's also why the very first word of the great Benedictine Rule, which has guided monastic communities for 1,500 years, is this one little word: listen. Fifteen centuries of successful community built on the power of mere listening.

start by calling God 'Father' (Luke 11:2). That's the key to prayer.