Quotes About Connection

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.

We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.

No communication takes place until the other person feels heard

If we don't tell people about our needs, it is much less likely they will be met.

As we learn to speak from the heart we are changing the habits of a lifetime.

The circle is the fundamental geometry of open human communication.

Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.

I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication.

Communication is the key to successful relationships.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it's rare that you get to explore that in a film.

Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.

At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.

I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

The true value of communication is often not so much what you say to each other but the simple, powerful fact that you care enough to say something to each other so often.

Communication can only take place among equals.

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

The first law of social communication is whenever you meet anyone, exalt him or her.