Quotes About Communication

Silence creates its own violence.

That's the problem with people who are not human. You can't tell how badly they're hurt, or how much they need your help, and until you ask, they don't always know how to tell you.

I leaned in closer, like a fool, like someone who had not had months of survival training or ever studied biology. Someone tricked into thinking that words should be read.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

The President promised me to reflect upon this proposition, and to confer with his Cabinet upon the propriety of adopting it. All Cabinet consultations are secret; which is equivalent to saying that I never knew what occurred in that meeting to which my proposition was submitted. The result was not communicated to me, but the events which followed proved that the suggestion was not accepted.

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.

One person's inflammatory rhetoric is another person's poetry,

human beings have an intense craving, often unfulfilled, to be understood by someone else.

Leadership is the ability to articulate a vision and get others to carry it out.

success traits: "a good communicator," "a team builder," "energizes others," "has infectious enthusiasm," and "has fun doing it.

Next, in order to make sure that you are not leaving out any important topics, ask each member of the group to bring in two or three bullet points that they think require your attention. This way, you develop a two-way mode of communication with this group.

entails a warm reception and not a preemptive condemnation. To dialogue, one must know how to lower the defenses, to open the doors of one's home and to offer warmth.

only a fool blames the messenger.

Students have the right to know our goals—all of them. Challenging students, who have experienced adults as unpredictably dangerous creatures roaming their landscapes, have earned the right to be suspicious of us. If these students are to try again, we have to be transparent in our efforts.

Working as a team: No one effectively does the work of teaching challenging students alone for very long. Teachers and professional staff must have multiple venues to vent, ask for advice, brainstorm strategies, and celebrate successes.

Give someone half a page in a newspaper and they think they own the world.

I like the way you touch me." "I like to touch you... That works out for us, huh?

and then I said, "I love you" and all he said back was, "I know". "I know"... what does that mean?!

Don't feel happy at me.

Don't be happy at me.

As the sign of a deeper truth, metaphor was close to sacrament. Because the vastness and richness of reality cannot be expressed by the overt sense of a statement alone.