Quotes About Communication

Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens--second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.

In the next long minute, he felt an understanding spread deep down inside him, an understanding that he'd only felt with animals before--with poor old Hilda and the hawks he'd seen in tall bare trees and that buck deer, long ago in the woods, that spoke Ben's name and told him the world was a fine place to live, hard but fine.

What if you made a positive impact in every conversation?

When judgment ceases, communication and connection increases

Miscommunication is at the heart of your heartbreak

Your feelings are cosmic communication! The good feelings mean, GOOD FOR YOU. The bad feelings are to get your attention so that you will change what you are focusing on.

If men stopped making fools of themselves in front of women, I'm 80% sure the planet would cease to spin on its axis.

The words hot, lot, and got were not apart of a ladies vocabulary.

Well, I've had enough. I can't trust you, Darcy O'Mara. I don't want to see you again.

Freshen up? Is that some horrible transatlantic slang? If you mean for a rest, a wash, a change of clothes, then please say so. People always said what they meant in my day.

You can't go around killing people who insult you or disagree with you or society would be a highly dangerous place.

Next thing we know you'll be teaching Podge to say 'mirror' instead of 'looking glass' and 'serviette' instead of 'napkin.

We typed 'Boobs'.

These were facts, not myths, although what freight they carried I could not say. I was deaf in Simon's language, and blind in his culture. In the end, all I really

La ambigüedad, lejos de ser una carga, representa la clave de un lenguaje óptimo flexible. Y esta propiedad es seguramente universal.

A body is a body, but only voices are capable of love

To write a letter is to send a message to the future; to speak of the present with an addressee who is not there, knowing nothing about how that person is (in what spirits, with whom) while we write and, above all, later: while reading over what we have written. Correspondence is the utopian form of conversation because it annihilates the present and turns the future into the only possible place for dialogue.

There's another quote on the act of writing letters, have a look: Letter writing is a truly anachronistic genre, a sort of tardy inheritance of the eighteenth century; those who lived at that time believed in the pure truth of the written word. And we? Times have changed; words are lost with ever greater ease; you can see them float on the waters of history; sink, come up again, mixed in by the current with the water hyacinths.

The stress-free workplace that is most productive is the one where workers respect each other's differences.

Moving around limits tribal affiliations that are detrimental to democracy, communication, and innovation.

Y si: el mundo de la pantalla seguía siendo el gobierno de las muchedumbres. Y el narcisismo campeaba y la paranoia cundía porque todos estábamos mirándonos a todos. Y no había allí nadie que no pareciera atrapado en su cabeza

Pero cómo se le va a ocurrir separar el sujeto del verbo con una coma, hombre!

Mi papá va dejando regadas sílabas por el camino de la conversación, «claro», «normal», «obvio», como migas de pan para que yo no me pierda.