Quotes About Communication

Talia: I was brought up to respect older people and peasants...not that you're... Jack: (clears throat) Quit while you're ahead Meryl: Ahead? She just called mom and old peasant.

I love you' I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face ... My fear was a greater one--that she won't say it back.

What happened to romance? sappy soppy longhand love letters.

I learned that it is possible to make conversation with anyone, if you figure out what they wish to discuss.

But Adrian, sometimes it's nice to let her be smart too.

Sometimes, when one communicates with others, one produces results.

What? Listen,you..." And then, strangely enough, she calls me a female dog.

We accept without question that we–human beings– are the center of the universe. Talk about hubris. But when a woman says, 'I love you', that won't go through our skulls.

I knew something about loneliness, knew what it was to sit in my room, checking my phone for texts that never came, logging onto Facebook to see other people's statuses, happy statuses indicating their lives had gone on while mine hadn't.

Somewhere down the road...I hope you find [that girls] don't all have the same thing between their ears. The good ones don't put up with macho mind games.

wondered, could someone love you if you didn't tell him the whole truth?

You learn about me, and I learn nothing about you. That's not a foundation on which friendships are based.

One call that I never will forget came at close to four A.M., waking me; he must have just gotten up in Los Angeles. His voice said, "Alex Haley?" I said, sleepily, "Yes? Oh, hey, Malcolm!" His voice said, "I trust you seventy percent" -- and then he hung up. I lay a short time thinking about him and I went back to sleep feeling warmed by that call, as I still am warmed to remember it. Neither of us ever mentioned it." The Autobiography of Malcolm X

He didn't understand women so how could he possibly expect to understand their predecessors.

the I-It relationship, we treat other people as objects and expect something back from each relationship. In contrast, in the I-Thou relationship we relate to others out of respect, friendship, and love.

Significantly, we now turn to online news sources that reinforce a particular worldview. As we filter out what does not resonate with us, sooner or later, we fail to see or hear any alternative views. Eventually we find it difficult to interact meaningfully with those who hold differing views. As we view the world through a smaller lens, we lessen our ability to learn from diverse perspectives. Our societies become more fragmented as a result of this increasing myopia.

How easy it is for men to talk about beauty, and how subtly intimidating when they do.

I think it really makes a difference when you know the people that you're working with, when you develop a relationship.

stars, Where did such anguish come from?" And the stars tell him, The stars tell him everything.

My mother's most common childhood memory of me is standing next to me trying to be heard over the voice on the page. I didn't really commit to writing until I understood that it meant making that happen for someone else.

If I seem cagey, it is because I am not a liar and hate being considered one, due to an accident of craft. But also, if I tell you the idea, and the description disappoints you, the novel can be lost.

The smile he gives Mr. Zhe on greeting is more intimate than a kiss hello.

I was spelling out a message that would allow me to talk to myself and to others. The novel that emerged was about things I could not speak of in life, in some cases literally. I would lie, or I would feel a weight on my chest as if someone was sitting there. But when the novel was done, I could read from it. A prosthetic voice.

I cleared my throat and found my voice then, like a coin suddenly in your pocket that'd been missing when last you looked for it. Ernesto's