Quotes About Communication

Perhaps there was no more detrimental consequence of our childhood abandonment than being forced to habitually hide our authentic selves. Many of us come out of childhood believing that what we have to say is as uninteresting to others as it was to our parents.

We do not have to let other people's irresponsible emotional expression alienate us from our feelings.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

Without words, young children sometimes show parents the parts of their experience that have overwhelmed them.

Your composure will greatly reduce the likelihood of frightening or confusing your child further. Remember, children are very sensitive to the emotional states of adults, particularly their parents.

Sometimes their "brave face" is an attempt to reduce the anxiety of a bewildered parent.

God did not say everything at once. The earlier communications take into account the limitations in the understanding of people at earlier times.

They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.

And over and over she told him she loved him. And over and over he told her he loved her. And it was always a new thing that they told each other.

The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.

I answered that I was sure, and he asked me again, and this time I understood his concern. 'I'm not embarrassed!' I said, or at least tried to say, before recalling that embarazada means something entirely different to 'embarrassed' and that I'd just wailed at the doctor that I wasn't pregnant, something his medical training had presumably made evident to him.

Ich dachte, du ziehst es vor, C-Minus zu sprechen." "Das heißt C++", schalt sie ihn. "Ich weiß außerdem, dass Java mehr ist als nur Kaffee. Und Assembler nichts mit Ikea-Möbeln zu tun hat.

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

Great leaders not only treat people with respect and dignity, they hold others accountable for doing the same.

As he had demonstrated with the Soviets, Baker recognized that the person across the table had his or her own domestic politics to worry about and he made a point of looking for ways to satisfy those needs while still getting what he wanted.

don't mind. I just thought you might not want to." The three men

It's too easy to be stupid, and too easy to wake up in the morning with the feeling you said something that had more to do with want and despair than need.

Later, she called him. Hopper said, "I love you, I need you." She replied, " Have you ever thought of suicide?

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.

2) Asking For The Order Doesn't Motivate People To Buy. What motivates people to buy is when they get that you "get" them—that you understand their world, and have shown how your product/service will impact their company in ways important to them. In most cases, the salesperson that wins the deal isn't the one with the best product or lowest price, but the one who best articulates the customer's point of view.

Social media is like a virtual handshake when used by a professional advisor.

What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

Once a computer was asked, "What is the truth?" It took a very long time before the reply came, "I will tell you a story…