Quotes About Communication

The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.

The goodness of our intentions was in direct correlation to the heights from which we condescended to each other.

I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.

Most people ignore most poetry because Most poetry ignores most people.

genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood

I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

We don't have relationships to get our needs met, we have relationships to discover what our needs might be.

People are histrionic to get people thinking about them. We are excessive when something about ourselves needs to be recognized and we need other people to help us work out what it is.

Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.

I asked her if she liked PJ Harvey and she said that she liked her old stuff mostly and that Uh Huh Her was pretty good too and then I tried not looking at her for a minute because she was starting to mad own my gaze like in a magnetic way and I didn't want to sweat her too much.

YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.' Get off of the car,' J.Lo huffed. 'I am an English superstar.' Uh-uh. There's no comparison. 'Gratuity' in written Boovish has seventeen different bubbles that all have to be the right size and in the right place. 'J.Lo' in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it 'M-smiley face-pound sign.

We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.

To say a word once is communicative, to say it twice is emphatic, but to say it twenty times turns it into a trippy floating nothing.

Talk is what we have, what makes us distinctive. Talk to us is what webs are to a spider, or speed to a gazelle.' 'Talk is how we bring what's inside our minds into the outside world,' Albie said. 'Animals have feelings and thoughts. Animals have always had feelings and thoughts – it's just that only now have they been able to bring them out.

Alas, a fiction can fly around the world before the truth has managed to pick the sleep from its eyes in the morning. Many

The revolution was not televised; it was livestreamed.

Darwin, with typical prescience, suspected that this might be the case: Man alone is capable of progressive improvement. That he is capable of incomparably greater and more rapid improvement than is any other animal, admits of no dispute; and this is mainly due to his power of speaking and handing down his acquired knowledge.

Every scientist knows that the most productive conversations happen in the bar.

There is nothing worse than a long, rambling text from a collaborator who uses a whole page to say what can be written in a few lines."

I understand the fear surrounding this topic, but the fear is misplaced. We shouldn't be afraid of speaking about this, we should be more afraid of what not speaking about this can lead to. It can ruin relationships, destroy families, and in the most dire circumstances it can end lives.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

I've been around many girls who have been super outgoing. And a lot of times, they would say to me, "Why are you so quiet? What's wrong with you?" And I'm like, "I don't know. That's just the way I am." So if I found the perfect girl she would totally get that and say, "You're quiet, and that's the way I love you.

Fish held the silence for so long that I had to restrain myself from prodding her. That's never a good idea. Sometimes people hesitate because they don't have the courage to come out with whatever needs to be said; other times they desperately want to speak but can't find the words. Jabbing them prematurely tends to shut them up. Outwaiting them gives them the time to say more than they intend.