Quotes About Communication

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in man, and finds the readiest response.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest responses.

It's hard to overstate just how foreign the worlds of Washington and Silicon Valley are to each other. At the exact moment when great-power conflict is making a comeback and harnessing technology is the key to success, Silicon Valley and Washington are still working on working together.

Satellites are not just getting better; they are getting more plentiful. According to then Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, the number of satellite launches more than doubled between 2016 and 2018.44 In 2018 alone, 322 small satellites about the size of a shoebox were hurled into space. The Paris-based firm Euroconsult estimates that more than eight thousand small satellites will be launched between 2019 and 2028.

In 2000, approximately 15 percent of the world's population was connected to the Internet.51 Today, more than half the world is online, and more people are estimated to have mobile phones than access to running water.

the transformative power of relationships

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.

Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.

Dialogue is not conversation. It is conversation's greatest hits.

The greatest struggle in my life is between a dignified silence and having my say.

Every couple has the same five arguments in their lifetime, which is really just the one, over and over, until people die or divorce. What it is depends on who you are and what your parents did to you.

I couldn't ask her anything. There wasn't a single question to which I'd get the answer I wanted.

AB: It's a great gift. It was the training: to listen, to observe. Those skills are very much what you need as a writer. Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.

my mother must have said to me a hundred times that men needed to be handled right and a woman who couldn't handle her man had only herself to blame.

I could feel him through a glass and I was banging on it, screaming at him: Why is there a glass between us? Where did it come from? Take it down! And Brian looked at me with puzzled, irritated concern and said, in effect, What glass? And, Please, please stop complaining about this thing that isn't even there.

try hard not to say things like this, but every once in a while my need to prove a point, such a base and unattractive need, rises up and I meet it by telling him things that he doesn't need to hear.

used to write copy. My boss told me: If you gotta say it's upscale, it ain't. My boss said, It's like that guy who tells you he's funny.

Hierarchy (or, more specifically, the fear it creates when not handled well) reduces psychological safety.

For knowledge work to flourish, the workplace must be one where people feel able to share their knowledge! This means sharing concerns, questions, mistakes, and half-formed ideas.

In one study investigating employee experiences with speaking up, 85% of respondents reported at least one occasion when they felt unable to raise a concern with their bosses, even though they believed the issue was important.