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Communication Quotes
"The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter."
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"I cherish genuine conversation, where people actually care what someone else has to say."
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"Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification."
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"She had always thought that if only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of language, then understanding would be perfect and there'd be no more needless conflicts. Instead she had discovered that rather than magnifying differences between people, language might just as easily soften them, minimize them, smooth things over so that people could get along even though they really didn't understand each other. The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think they were more alike than they really were. Maybe language was better."
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"Real silence is silence without words, silence that speaks words in silence and silence that talks better than words."
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"Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do."
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"The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute."
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"Incidentally, am I alone in finding the expression "it turns out to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected statements without the trouble of explaining what your source or authority actually is. It's great. It's hugely better than its predecessors "I read somewhere that... or the craven "they say that... because it suggests not only that whatever flimsy bit of urban mythology you are passing on is actually based on brand new, ground breaking research, but that it is research in which you yourself were intimately involved. But again, with no actual authority anywhere in sight. Anyway, where was I?"
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"Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes took unbounded pains with his voice, and Cicero, who was naturally weak, made a long journey into Greece to correct his manner of speaking. With far nobler themes, let us not be less ambitious to excel."
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"Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?"
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"Sometimes "No" is the kindest word."
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"In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding."
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"There are four kinds of readers. The first is like the hourglass; and their reading being as the sand, it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second is like the sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third is like a jelly bag, allowing all that is pure to pass away, and retaining only the refuse and dregs. And the fourth is like the slaves in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, retain only pure gems."
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"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
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"When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger."
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"If you respect & care about someone, give him/her direct feedback in his/her face. Please don't be coward and use proxies! Be a man/woman!!!"
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"Humor is hard to catch in a second language. Especially when you're as serious a young man as Giovanni. He said to me the other night, 'When you are ironic, I am always behind you. I am slower. It is like you are the lightning and I am the thunder."
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"I thought I would be understood without words."
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"More than anything else, your people want you to listen to them."
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"No pleasure has any savor for me without communication."
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"Silence is a 'contingent' phenomenon with positive or negative qualities. When it has to be assessed it needs to be 'contextualized' by exploring its background."
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"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?"
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"Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way you say it. That makes all the difference."
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"Talking doesn't get your point across but listening does."
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"The two words expressed volumes."
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"I've been thinking.That snapped Piper back to the present. Coming from your boyfriend, I've been thinking was kind of a scary line."
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"Ask any person trained in sign language and they will confirm the fact that you can talk with your hands. Your hand gestures communicate for you and are an integral part of your language. While some people may come by hand gestures naturally, you can learn to be even more expressive to get your points across-and to be memorable."
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"If your words touch the hearts, that's good; if your words touch the minds, that's better and if your words touch both the hearts and the minds, that is the best!"
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"It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no."
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"No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue."
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"Words; the powerful air that can change the mind, the body and the spirit in the twinkle of an eye! He who don't know words don't know life!"
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"When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak, be our silent statement."
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"Your words are very powerful and what you say matters, keep them positive and powerful."
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"There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don't understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced."
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"I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind."
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"If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error."
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"I guess the truth is nobody told this smart kid that communication between such divergent life forms was impossible, so he just went ahead and did it anyhow."
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"Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are."
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"My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning."
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"It's hard to communicate anything exactly and that's why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."
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"Words fly like stones into clouds and accelerate...."
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"The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read."
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"If you need only 10 minutes to speak about a topic that requires 60 minutes, then you are a good speaker. If you need 60 minutes to speak about a topic which requires only 10 minutes, then you are a Romanian preacher."
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"When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation."
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"What does syadvad (speech that does not hurt the ego of any living being) speech say? Speak in such a way that 5 people benefit from it and that it does not interfere [conflict] with anyone."
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"Every woman's heart cannot be opened with words, sometimes you need to use your hands."
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"Sharing silence between us. Sometimes is all you can share."
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