Quotes About Communication

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

The life of a couple is lived on the mental level of the more mediocre of the two beings who compose it.

La lectura de un buen libro es un diálogo incesante, en que el libro habla y el alma escucha.

Vienas piktas sakinys, perpasakotas nepalankiai, pagimdo baisiausi? prieš?. "Jei sužinotume, k? apie mus kiti kalba, niekas su niekuo nesikalb?t?." Nelaim?, anks?iau ar v?liau mes vis tiek sužinome tai, k? kiti kalba apie mus.

Niekuomet nešnek?kite blogai apie save. Tuo ypa? mielai pasir?pins j?s? draugai.

La parte difficile, in una discussione, non è difendere la propria opinione, quanto conoscerla.

Po ketvir?io valandos intymaus bendravimo dviej? žmoni?, kurie jau?ia ne meil?, o tik trauk? kits kitam, atsiranda toks pasitik?jimas, toks lengvas bendravimas, toks švelnus d?mesys, koki? kartais nesitik?k n? po dešimties labai tvirtos draugyst?s met?.

Kad patiktum kitam, reikia kalb?ti tik tai, kas jam malonu ir kas j? jaudina, vengti gin?? d?l nereikšming? dalyk?, kuo mažiau klausin?ti ir niekda neleisti jam suabejoti, kad kas nors gali b?ti protingesnis už j?.

Bueno-explicó-(¿Qué más desea el lector:¿Explicó?¿Contó?¿Dijo?¿Musitó?¿Interecedió?¿Requirió?¿Sibiló?, esta última palabra para enriquecer el conocido y monotonísimo axioma del fanfarrón y pseudovanguardista J.COrtázar. ¡Ah, los caminos sin fin de la vana literatura!)

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La lectura es la comunicación perfecta de acciones solitarias

We talk about things. We talk about nothing.

He says nothing. Not because he disagrees, or disapproves, but because he's crying. Faintly I hear my father sniffling and wiping away tears, and I know he's proud, just incapable of expressing it. I can't fault the man for not knowing how to say what's in his heart. It's the family curse.

Frankie's chief virtue in my book is the way he talks about his kids.

You can't ask my father anything directly. So I file it away with all the other things I don't know about my parents - permanently missing pieces in the jigsaw puzzle that is me.

There is nuance now, subtext, body language, and pheromones.

Dice que él no tiene ninguna respuesta. Lo que ocurre, sencillamente, es que ha leído la Biblia muchas veces, del derecho y del revés, y que le gusta compartir con otras personas sus observaciones.

Then she turned on him in a hundred small ways, each of them minor and not unusual when one human being lived with another, but this was like saying that a typhoon was nothing more than single drops of rain pushed by a little wind.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.