Quotes About Communication

He wanted to instill that sociability in his son; he believed that being curious about people was one of the few crucial life skills that could be fully nurtured in a place like East Orange.

It's like you can't have a real conversation with anyone.

Our collective information regarding his death was still limited, which brought forward the sadder fact that, at the end of it all, none of us had actually known Rob as well as we thought we did, as well as we should have, as well as—with just a little more effort—we could have.

Watch Your Words Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. — Rudyard

In words are seen the state of mind, character and disposition of the speaker. — Plutarch

Monkeys can't talk, stupid!

But the thing I'm finding out is some people don't really appreciate it when you'r trying to be helpful.

Chirag: Rowley, do you think I exist? Rowley: Nope! I can't even hear you or see you!

I don't know what a guy needs to do to impress a girl these days.

I probably should've thought about talking to Uncle Gary a lot earlier. He's been married something like four times already, so he's an EXPERT on relationships.

Sometimes friends get on each other's nerves.

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

Why do so many people start their messages with, "It's me"? Of course it is you. We all know that. But who the hell ARE you?

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.

The best solutions come from collaboration between the people with the problems to solve and the people who can solve them.

Shared documents aren't shared understanding.

meeting" is often the euphemism we use for unproductive collaboration.

The clean language and distinction between output and outcome was first made clear to me in a talk by Robert Fabricant called "Behavior Is Our Medium".

Stories are the building blocks of communication between developers and those who use their work. Story maps organize and structure these building blocks, and thus enhance this communication process — which is the most critical part of software development itself.

Documents usually describe what we need, but not why we need it.

Right now you should stop whatever you're doing and say this out loud: Stories get their name from how they're supposed to be used, not from what you're trying to write down.

Handing off all the details about the story to someone else to build doesn't work. Don't do that.