Quotes About Communication

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.

We ignored the fact that many customers don't know what they want. We ignored that fact that even when they know what they want, they can't describe it. We ignored the fact that even when they can describe it, they often describe a proposed solution rather than the real need.

I will trust you until you give me a reason not to. Do I make myself clear?" And though my stomach tightens at the thought of all those Nickel Bay Bucks in my care, I meet his gaze and answer, "Crystal." "Good.

The last editorial meeting I had was with a 24 year-old Vassar grad who tried to explain to me (after I had been selling novels longer than she had been alive) how to write a book. I kept my cool and was nice to the human, but as Kris and I walked down the sidewalk after that meeting, I remember my only words were 'I'm done with this shit.

T'Pol." Archer made his voice sting with command. "You're coming dangerously close to violating a rule of the bridge. Don't nag the captain.

It is not possible to translate a language that does not exist.

When asked if she would accept his affairs to try to keep her marriage, she commented, "I do. I think that speaks for itself.

The point is, Dean was not and is not nor will he ever be the ideal husband... he gives the minimum amount.

Chain letters are not illegal. What is illegal is to threaten lives in such letters or solicit money.

After a moment, he turned sharply to me. 'Are you quite all right?' 'Yes, perfectly. Why do you ask?' 'Because I have just called you contrary and you did not bother to contradict me. I thought you might be ill.

One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

I am sorry " I murmured. "I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to my hair. "I just cannot bear to be kept out of your life " I said into the dark. He gave a sigh. "Julia you daft woman. When you will you understand You are my life.

I have faith that men can be as reasonable and logical as women if they but try.

In my experience it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear then do as you please, than attempt to reason with him.

Men, I had often observed, were never happier than when they believed they were imparting wisdom.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

I reached up to press a kiss to his cheek. "Do not be too angry with Father. He did not mean it not really." "Angry? I feel rather sorry for him. We are kindred spirits," he observed with a wry twist of his mouth. "How so?" "We both suffer because you will not understand how utterly essential you are to our happiness.

Only women are ever called persnickety," Mary Alice said. "Men get to be 'detail oriented.

I had long since discovered upon my travels that men are largely the same no matter where one encounters them. And if one is prepared to let them discourse on their pet topics of conversation, one can generally get on with things quite handily without any interference.

Why must you argue before I even have my tea? So many words.

Veronica to Stoker: "Does this mean you will stop torturing me by displaying yourself in various states of undress?

Gentlemen are champion sulkers so long as one doesn't call the behavior by that name.

What, I began to wonder, was the point of allowing a gentleman access to one's bed and heart if he could not interpret a lady's most irrational moods?