Quotes About Connection

The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is not possible not to communicate.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.

It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling

It is all about the quality of the communication, not the quantity.

Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

Real communication is impossible without listening.

The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.

We will see beauty in the outer world when we are able to see beauty within ourselves. And this is the best thing we can do for ourselves and for the universe.

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.