Quotes About Communication

Vous êtes bien? demanda Coban. Elle ne le regarda même pas. Elle savait qu'il savait.

Elle pleurait des mots qui se mélangeaient les uns aux autres.

Ils liront demain dans leur journal ce qu'ils doivent en savoir...

reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts

Those who possess the strongest reasoning and who best order their thoughts in order to make them clear and intelligible can always best persuade others of what they are proposing, even if they were to speak only Low Breton and had never learned rhetoric.

If philosophers were always in agreement about the meaning of words, almost all their disputes would evaporate.

It's funny, I've decided 'Hallelujah' is a kind of Rorschach test for people, because everyone has a different reaction to it and to what I'm doing. I just sang it, and whatever came out was just natural and spontaneous and maybe that's the best thing, because there's a kind of enigma, both in the meaning of the words and the way Leonard Cohen said them, that catches people's attention.

I believe in the magic and authority of words.

Avec celui que nous aimons, nous avons cessé de parler, et ce n'est pas le silence. --- Gdy z osob? kochan? przestajemy mówi?, nie zapada cisza.

Les mots qui vont surgir savent de nous ce que nous ignorons d'eux.

Being made up of distinctions, language finds it almost impossible to express undifferentiation.

Where the successful or failed dialogues between Christianity and other cultures are concerned, we could go on for hours.

for there are things for which a symbolical mode of expression properly so called is the only one possible, and which will consequently never be understood by those for whom symbolism is a dead letter.

Il y a là une différence qui est un peu du même genre que celle que nous avons signalée, pour la Chine, entre la langue écrite et la langue parlée : l'arabe littéral seul peut présenter toute la fixité qui est requise pour remplir le rôle de langue traditionnelle tandis que l'arabe vulgaire, comme toute autre langue servant à l'usage courant, subit naturellement certaines variations suivant les époques et suivant les régions.

les Péruviens n'ont jamais eu aucun autre procédé d'écriture, alors qu'ils possédaient une langue très parfaite et très raffinée ; cette sorte d'idéographie était rendue possible par de multiples combinaisons dans lesquelles l'emploi de fils de couleurs différentes joue un rôle important.

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

don't know why you feel you have the right to treat me disrespectfully and, frankly, I don't care. I've put up with it long enough, and I need you to stop treating me this way." ("I" phrase)

When confronting someone, refrain from using the words always or never. When you say to someone: "You always…" or "You never…," the other person is going to focus more on that one word

You don't want your opening statement to sound like an attack the other person's character, so always begin with an "I" phrase:

Sample Phrases of Apology Offer a phrase of apology whenever you feel it will encourage empathy between the other person and you.

I'm sorry if I seem overly sensitive." "I'm sorry if I misunderstood your intent." "I'm sorry that we need to have this conversation." "I apologize if I misunderstood what happened." "I regret that I have to bring this up." "Please forgive me for feeling this way.

Let's talk about this. I need to know why it happened and how we can keep it from happening again." "Can we talk about what happened?" "I feel that we need to talk this out so it doesn't happen again.

Let's go somewhere in private and try to resolve this." "Let's talk this over and find a suitable compromise." "I'd like to hear how you saw the situation so that I better understand.

Here's how you see the issue: ________. And here's how I see it: ________. Let's see where we can come together on this." "Since we don't agree why this happened, let's lay out the facts and come up with a solution we both can live with.