Quotes About Communication

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.'

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

I opened my mouth to do some calm explaining. "I'm gay." is what came out.

The idle mind, which demands rules, i.e. recipes for making correct sentences, and shirks the subtler task of understanding the speaker's point of view and living into his emotion will never either use or understand aspects aright. If the speaker is living into the action, sympathizing with it, he will use imperfective, if he stands outside and merely states a fact or a judgment he will instinctively use the perfective

Aspect or quality of a verb had, I believe, nothing originally to do with time; aspect in fact cuts clean across time. Aspect in most languages is now at least indicated for the most part by adverbs. I run — quickly; I stand — still; in this sense many verbs have hundreds of aspects.

Hebrew is a language which has no tenses at all , it has only aspects.

he realized he would only get that when they had reached some kind of accord, where painful subjects could be addressed without instantly causing defensive anger.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath ' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

Apie praeit?, nebent ji b?t? be galo laiminga, vaikai kalb?ti nelink?.

The idea that mothers and daughters can say everything to each other is a myth.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

You don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

When a man only rings you late at night, when he only wants to see you late at night, when he doesn't take you out for dinner, or introduce you to his friends, or spend any time or attention on you, then this is not a relationship. This is sex.