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Communication Quotes
"We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all."
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"God gave you the art to talk and you will just ignore it like these?"
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"They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood."
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"It's not how well you communicate, but how intensely you have blended emotions with words that provides hints and triggers audiences mind to decipher and respond without your influence is what matters!"
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"When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say."
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"Debate is masculine conversation is feminine."
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"Not being heard is no reason for silence."
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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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"Listen should be on 60-70% and talking or speaking on from 40 up to 30%."
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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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"The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion."
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"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
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"He tried to explain and to convince. He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a vacuum. There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends, the picture postcards she had seen, the novels of country squires she had read; it was this that he had to address, this immateriality which could not hear him or answer, deaf and impersonal like a wad of cotton."
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"If you are not sure or you don't know something, politely ask. Asking is not a sign of being daft, but of confidence."
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"So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said."Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."
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"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."
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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 never enough!"
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"Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient."
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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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"Your words reveal your wants but your actions reveal your expectations."
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"To understand and be understood is to be at peace."
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"Understanding knowledge as an essential element of love is vital because we are bombarded daily with messages that tell us love is about mystery, about that which cannot be known. We see movies in which people are represented as being in love who never talk with one another, who fall into bed without ever discussing their bodies, their sexual needs, their likes and dislikes. Indeed, the message is received from the mass media is that knowledge makes love less compelling; that it is ignorance that gives love its erotic and transgressive edge. These messages are brought to us by profiteering producers who have no clue about the art of loving, who substitute their mystified visions because they do not really know how to genuinely portray loving interaction."
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"Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding."
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"Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves."
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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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"The worst thing about being concise with people is the game of puzzle you've made them play."
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"Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me."
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"Words do have purpose; they are essential clues in determining actions, or lack thereof."
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"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."
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"How strange and ironic it is- all the words i long to sayare lost in words."
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"Words represent your emotional state, beware of what you speak! Restore your mental balance."
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"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."
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"Just say what you want to say . . . and say it with all your heart."
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"I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language."
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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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"Assumptions should never be the basis of any understanding."
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"Words without warmth are dead words."
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"Words are the voice of the heart."
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"A Speechmaker's Prayer: "Let each word of mine be tender and sweet, Just in case someone might make me eat it."
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"Terminological inexactitude."
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"There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world."
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"Your words are powerful containers, carrying blessings or curses depending on what is inside of you. If you harbour bitterness in you, you will speak spitefully and create hurt and hatred in those you speak with. If there is love inside of you, you will release pleasant and caring words that create appreciation, gratitude and warmth in those around you."
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"I wish I didn't need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both."
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"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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"Words are the source of misunderstandings."
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"Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table."
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"I cherish genuine conversation, where people actually care what someone else has to say."
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