Quotes About Communication

You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English.

find the right words for your troubles, and your troubles become half-joys.

Confidences pre-announced are seldom worth while.

Sloppy language is a kind of disloyalty to humanity, a kind of lying. Talent

Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden -- a secret language.

Vocabulary ????(?????) ohay? (gozaimasu) good morning ????? konnichiwa hello/good day/good afternoon ????? kombanwa good evening ???? moshi-moshi hello (telephone)

Example sentence ????????????????????? Konnichiwa, hajimemashite, watashi wa Jon desu. Hello. Nice to meet you. I am John.

In every marriage more than a week old there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.

Discourse, it's good for the soul.... civil... or otherwise, which.... do YOU prefer??

What does common sense have to do with it?" he exploded. "We're talking about a job interview!

What accounts for TIT FOR TAT's robust success is its combination of being nice, retaliatory, forgiving, and clear. Its

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.79

The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of reciprocal concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.

a communicator who references a weakness early on is immediately seen as more honest

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. —

So by my lights, the number one rule for salespeople is to show customers that you genuinely like them. There's a wise adage that fits this logic well: people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

There is a natural human tendency to dislike a person who brings us unpleasant information, even when that person did not cause the bad news.

the main purpose of speech is to direct listeners' attention to a selected sector of reality. Once that is accomplished, the listeners' existing associations to the now-spotlighted sector will take over to determine the reaction. For

tactic can be particularly successful when the audience is already aware of the weakness; thus, when a communicator mentions it, little additional damage is done, as no new information is added—except, crucially, that the communicator is an honest individual. Another enhancement occurs when the speaker uses a transitional word—such as however, or but, or yet—that channels the listeners' attention away from the weakness and onto a countervailing strength.

to make it climb, make it rhyme. Within

The rule says that favors are to be met with favors; it does not require that tricks be met with favors. A