Quotes About Communication

Anak-anak di Nusantara, sejauh yang saya amati dan pahami, sering diajarkan bahasa secara tak konsisten. Di rumah maupun di sekolah, bahasa yang digunakan kerap tidak hanya satu. Keadaan ini sendiri sebetulnya tidak apa-apa; sebaliknya sangat bermanfaat bagi anak-anak jika mereka mendengar lebih dari satu bahasa sejak kecil. Hanya saja, penggunaannya harus konsisten.

Follow these guidelines for writing effective memos and business email: • Clearly identify the subject. • Begin with the most important information: depending on the memo's purpose, you may have to provide background information

things we could not use in our speeches. Saws … amphibians … fire … peanut butter and socks—don't ask! … ropes … pudding …

I love you. ... they are the three most abused and underused words in the English language.

But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was an effect of the distance between them becoming less and less tolerable with each passing day, since as we grow old - for every now and then one must, yes, look reality in the eye and call things by their proper names - we feel more keenly the need to have the person we love beside us.

Hey, can you teach me the word for friend that you wrote on my card?" " Peng you ," I say. " Peng you ," she says, only instead of pung yo , it sounds like penguin . "Shee shee for being my penguin," she says.

She looks at Laura. Their eyes meet.

I swear over everything from being woken up in the middle of the night to realizing I've left the wet clothes in the washer for three days. At this point, "fuck" isn't even a swear word anymore; sentences just don't sound right unless it's interspersed somewhere.

The only thing worse than a social networking junkie who breaks out in a cold sweat if she hasn't updated her page in the past ten seconds is the person (usually it's a guy) who proudly refuses to join Facebook. You know, that same d-bag who held out on getting a cell phone until, like, 2002.

Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word.

My beloved son Thomas did caution, when first I set out to flow this tale upon the world, that although they may not be felt like a fist or a whip, words have a power that can nevertheless cower even the largest man to gibbering tears.

La punteggiatura è come l'elettroencefalogramma di un cervello che sogna - non dà le immagini ma rivela il ritmo del flusso sottostante.

particularly hard to convince of the fact that his garlic-enhanced invitations to share

We're both whisper-screaming at each other. All I can think is this is the worst possible way to break up with somebody.

Don't worry. We do not have to talk about. We are Russian. We do not talk about feelings all the time and no one has shrink." "I think you all have a shrink. And I think the shrink's name is vodka." This gets a smile out of both of them.

Eine gute Frage ist oft schon die halbe Antwort. Viele Probleme entstehen nicht aus fehlenden Antworten, sondern aus ungenauen Fragen.

It only becomes art if it touches other people.

Eventually, a Soviet general sat down in the empty seat next to Howley. Rank-conscious, the Russian visibly shuddered when he realized he was sitting next to someone of much lower position. 'I see you're a colonel,' he said through an interpreter. Howley looked up from his plate and grumbled, 'I see you're a general. Here, have some salami.

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.

This is important, Your Honor, because it establishes the fact that language, like blood, is a living thing that proceeds forward in time.

cannot recall a single one of my numerous stays in German-speaking Europe in which I was not at some time confronted with the lovely statement, "The Americans don't even speak proper English.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part. What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?

Por la corrupción del lenguaje empiezan otras muchas corrupciones..." "By the corruption of language many other corruptions begin ...