Quotes About Communication

As a Coptic priest in New York put it, "[H]umility is a mediator. It will always be the shortest distance between you and another person.

When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. … We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.

The throat is a road.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

The media—stenographers to power.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

Well, you know, I'm passionate about that. I just feel that we need to help children from the earliest time to realize that there are ways that they can express how they feel, ways that aren't hurtful.

When our children were old enough to communicate, I would try to talk them out of their negative feelings—or convince them there was no foundation for them. But what I found out is that suppressing feelings has the same fate as trying to suppress a beachball in the ocean—they both come out sideways.

The world needs to learn to know what to do with negative feelings," he told me, explaining his motivation for writing the song. "It's so easy to pick up a gun and shoot somebody. It's so much healthier—and so much more dramatic—to work out something interpersonally with somebody and to come to a resolution that means weal in both people's life.

And as I said, 'I wish I could pass this through the television set,' it just dawned on me—that was very much like the Eucharist, how [food] could be broken and offered to nourish others. And yet there was no way I could put that food through the television set, so I said there are other ways of sharing.

That's what we both wanted. To be read. To be asked. To have someone in our lives we couldn't fool.

Fred was patient with me in the years that followed our first meeting. He taught me that taking one's time, especially in relationships, allows the other person to know he or she is worth the time.

If parents can remember what it was like to be a child, they are going to be much more empathic with their own children.

An old supply pastor, many years before, had taught him that: What is offered in faith by one person can be translated by the Holy Spirit into what the other person needs to hear and see. The space between them is holy ground, and the Holy Spirit uses that space in ways that not only translate, but transcend.

He taught me that taking one's time, especially in relationships, allows the other person to know he or she is worth the time.

C... wasn't actually sure how things went forward from here. Normally, if he had a fight with a girl, then the relationship was over and he moved on to the next girl. Of course, that usually happened after a week or two, not after months with a woman he'd known for years, and was pretty sure he'd be content to spend the next couple of decades getting to know better.

I'm bi." But he could see how that was a pretty shitty denial to shove in your boyfriend's face, so he kept his mouth shut.

Sometimes I wonder if that's the thing that will break us in the long run. That it's so hard for you to trust in us.

Stop throwing your football at the ceiling. I hate you." Most of the time he loved living above his sister in the

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

In most cases, it is more satisfying to get a friend's answering machine and leave a cheery, tangible trace of your sincere commitment to the friendship than it is to engage in actual conversation.

If you really love someone, you want to know what they ate for lunch or dinner without you.

I think 90 percent of what/who we are is never really verbally communicated....