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Communication Quotes
"The alien reached out her hands to hold Alex's tightly. "Please. Some of what I want to express, it may be difficult to locate the right words."Of course.Pure alabaster eyes stared back at her. "Child, there is a hole in your mind."
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"The language of the heart is mankind's main common language."
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"LanguageCrickets chirp,Birds sing, Dogs howl,It's their own thing.Cats purr,Mice squeak,Cows moo,It's not what you think.Whales whistle,Dolphins click,Snakes hiss,So listen to this.Sheep baa,Rabbits twitch,If you can't speak,It's only a glitch.A body speaks,Their hands do wave,They're all speaking together,Now don't be so naA ve.It's all a language,Which we don't hear,b\Because it's not our own,What do we care!"
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"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."
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"The writer provides the text; the reader, the meaning."
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"Remember, no one can read your mind. People's actions or lack of, are not always purposeful. If you have a problem that you wish solved, you must communicate it. If you don't want to communicate your problem, then you also give away your right to worry, stress or complain about it. You are accountable for yourself."
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"A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly."
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"Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do."
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"The small smiles everybody wanted to try to figure out " they meant nothing, really. She wasn't so good at talking and the smiles made up for it. They filled the spaces in which she ought to have answers for things with something that gave people more questions."
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"The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort."
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"Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious."
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"One's email address serves as an identity online and speaks volumes about a person; it may be telling potential clients, partners or employers a whole lot about you: to be hired or fired. Unfortunately most send negative signals, indicating that: you are not a serious person - you are immature - Unprofessional, - Uncouth. etc. Take a look at your email address again today, get professional, be ethical, respectful, be admirable."
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"A word in earnest is as good as a speech."
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"How we talk effects our lives in two very important ways. It shows how we think of others and how we think of ourselves. The fascinating thing is they always run together."
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"The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes."
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"Words are like eggs dropped from great heights, you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall."
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"Language is a finding-place not a hiding place."
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"She always imagined their voices entangled somewhere in the wires when they spoke, caught up in a grid she didn't fully understand, passing back and forth. Once the calls were disconnected, she imagined the echoes of old conversations would be trapped there, floating back and forth with no exit, like ghosts."
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"Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more."
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"It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth."
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"They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them."
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"Remember this, posting pictures are like speaking words, you cannot take them back."
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"Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything."
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"A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has been more expensive but its value is less."
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"That just goes to show that you never can tell about a person by guessing," Frances informs her niece. "That's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood."
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"With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings."
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"He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?"
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"Words without warmth are dead words."
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"We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts."
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"He licked his lips. 'Well, if you want my opinion-''I don't, ' She said. 'I have my own."
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"It's funny how that works. Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying, I don't know how to speak to you. I don't know what you're thinking. Talk to me. Tell me everything you've ever said. All the words. Starting from your very first one."
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"Listening intently to someone is one of the best ways i know of to honor that person."
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"Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free."
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"It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger!"
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"The unsaid rules every conversation."
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"Unless your message is that you have no message, you need a message."
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"To speak much is one thing, to speak to the point another!"
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"There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper..."
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"Quite often it's not about what is said, but what isn't. And even when it's spoken, read between the lines. Listening with the heart is just as important as hearing with the mind."
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"Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought."
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"She was as bored as her brother would have been, and had not his gift of listening beneath words."
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"My words itch at your ears till you understand them."
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"Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently."
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"Be the voice, that can be heard without a microphone."
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"When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in."
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"Speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks."
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"One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone."
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"You don't have to say anything if you don't want to."Anna lies down, her head pillowed against my shoulder. Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas-a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak."
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