Quotes About Communication

Il marketing è troppo importante per essere lasciato al dipartimento marketing.

The journals may give you an opportunity to express your feelings without inviting further tables.

If a man comes up to you in the street and asks you for an address, is he lost or is he interrogating you?

They will want answers. Then they'll want silence.

Why me? All we do is argue." "That's why I want you

the 5 love languages?" "No." "Acts of Service, Touch and Closeness, Gifts, Quality Time, Words of Encouragement. It is a belief that most people feel loved based on one, maybe two of these.

Una organización funciona y progresa a través de la conversación. La calidad de estas conversaciones determina lo buena que es la organización

If you don't display a little more grace, I'm going to smear butter all over your face!

Truman makes friends without influencing people,' noted Arthur Schlesinger Jr. 'Dewey influences people without making friends.

But even a wonderful soloist needs a song. Even a pitch-perfect voice needs a message.

To Dewey, if brevity was the soul of wit, stagecraft was the very center of politics.

Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of 'common hatred".

A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand

Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

I actually prefer Abby," she said. "I'm sorry?" "Nobody calls me Abigail unless it's my mom and she's mad.

Facebook and Twitter, online petitions, comments sent from apps such as Countable, and boilerplate emails that come from advocacy-group websites. Don't waste your time. Congresspeople don't trust these channels; they're too easy to hack, game, or blast out en masse.

Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.

All public life sustains itself through metaphor.

metaphor is never static, and rarely innocent.

only too frequently, our metaphors are not our own.

The metaphor can be considered in some sense and under some circumstances to be a kind of sleight of hand by means of which meanings can be surreptitiously smuggled into an apparently innocent discourse.

A metaphor then, we might reasonably surmise, is not necessarily a matter of simple one-to-one equivalences ('this stands for that'), but neither is it a process of ornamentation of something that could have been more clearly said in another, simpler way; rather, in this case at least […] it is the very substance of the discourse.

A common error about metaphor is to suppose that it can be in some sense 'unpacked'. When that unpacking takes place, what is left is rarely of any value; it seems a paltry and colourless thing when compared to the metaphor itself.