Quotes About Communication

Interesting, I said - using a word I often use when students come out with an earnest banality - and left it at that.

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, "I love you."

A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog.

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell.

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.