Quotes About Communication

Listening intently even for a minute is one of the nicest gifts we can give to another human being.

Villagers saw me as a person when I played with them, as opposed to when I talked with them.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

Players are people, not horses. You don't handle them. You work with them, you coach them, you teach them, and, maybe most important, you listen to them.

You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

I'd burned bridges between us that had yet to be built.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

From the time they hit middle school, they start moving away from home. They are not doing anything wrong; it's just the way they are made. They are becoming independent, and they begin redefining themselves through the eyes other people who are not in their immediate family. The older they get, the more important it is to have other voices in their lies saying the same things but in a different way.

People need to know what they need to know when they need to know it.

Tension is actually the platform that gives you an opportunity to demonstrate that this is a safe place.

Board members, officers, executives, directors, managers, client service experts and geniuses: We, the consumers, want you to succeed. We dearly want to believe you know what you're doing — and that you care about our respect and appreciation. It doesn't take much to make us feel both looked after and loyal. But it doesn't take much to make us feel like fools, either, and we're less afraid to talk about it.

I talk for a living, but it's still hard to talk about love, especially when it's officially mandated by the calendar. (Men, of course, think Valentine's Day is a woman-dated occasion.)

It's hard to talk about love because most of the time, we have no idea what we're talking about. We mutter; we fumble; we blush; we purchase plush toys. None of it makes sense.

How do you say, 'Bring me steak and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?

How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase book.

There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex.

Bear heard Rose in the background saying, 'Why thank you, Mr. Fish.' 'Good redhead. Helpful redhead,' Fish returned.

Fish sighed and reached for the hotel phone. 'How do you say, "Bring me steak and eggs or I'll slit your throat" in Italian?' he asked.

God sure hadn't done His menfolk any favors when He's made women such a puzzlement.

Graham turned to face her. "Never be afraid to talk to me.