Communication Quotes

Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly failed, come to wonder how we ever manage to understand, and how we know that we have succeeded.

~ Patrick Wilson

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.

~ Bill Watterson

We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood—heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant.

~ Deborah Tannen

Can we be clear about who we are, what we want? Can we be fully present in our truth, and communicate that? Can we understand each other?

~ Jay Woodman

He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.

~ Thomas Szasz

Get specific sooner and reap many rewards. The specific detail or example proves the general conclusion, not the reverse. The more specific you are abut anything the more clear you become, for yourself and in telling others. Thus you reduce the chance of others misunderstanding you. And you become more compelling, credible and memorable.

~ Kare Anderson

I'm the man that'll make your nights shine bright like day light.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect.

~ Astronaut Ron Garan

Would you like the rhythm of your heart to be calm?Would you like the music of your soul towards harmony and fulfillment?Deal with any conflict constructively to reduce stress, tension and other unwanted collateral effects. Sharing you strategies on how to deal with a conflict:- take care of yourself and know well yourself- clarify what personal needs threatened by the conflict- identify a safe place and appropriate time for negotiation- seek first to understand than be understood, listening skills is very important.

~ Angelica Hopes

Dining at the rare reasonTo get between the circumstanceAnd start milking the Caesars For what enters the earsAnd is for their eyes to air and advise.

~ Initially No

I know everything I need to about a person by their hands. Eyes may be the window to ones soul but hands disclose the being.

~ Truth Devour

Silence often speaks louder than words. To be heard is nice to be understood is divine.

~ Truth Devour

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one puts into one's words does not carve out a direct path for itself, it is not irresistibly self-evident. A considerable time must elapse before a truth of the same order can take shape in them.

~ Marcel Proust

When you pray, you are speaking to yourself. When you take action, you are speaking to God.

~ Steve Maraboli

We float in language like icebergs – four-fifths under the surface and only one-fifth of us projecting into the open air of immediate, non-linguistic experience.

~ Aldous Huxley

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

~ John Dewey

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very, otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

~ C.s. Lewis

What said those two souls communicating through the language of the eyes, more perfect than that of the lips, the language given to the soul in order that sound may not mar the ecstasy of feeling? In such moments, when the thoughts of two happy beings penetrate into each other’s souls through the eyes, the spoken word is halting, rude, and weak—it is as the harsh, slow roar of the thunder compared with the rapidity of the dazzling lightning flash, expressing feelings already recognized, ideas already understood, and if words are made use of it is only because the heart’s desire, dominating all the being and flooding it with happiness, wills that the whole human organism with all its physical and psychical powers give expression to the song of joy that rolls through the soul. To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

~ José Rizal

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

~ Chris Gardner

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

~ Aravind Adiga

Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue.

~ Jazz Feylynn

In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are considered to be universal. However, this might not be true. Emotions and feelings may well be nonverbal and universal, so that one could telepathically send them to anyone, but rational thinking is so closely tied to language that it is very unlikely that complex thoughts could be sent across language barriers. Words will still be sent telepathically in their original language.

~ Michio Kaku

Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around their twisting tongue. If a tongue twister's tongue could twist, how many twists would the tongue twister's tongue twist while their tongue was a twisting.

~ Jazz Feylynn

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.

~ Anna Deavere Smith

An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.

~ Daniel Yergin

Strong communicators increase their influence because they are intentional and focused with their language.

~ Dianna Booher

What the devil is 'wordsharing'? Does the word for 'speak' mean 'listen' just as well? If I said, 'Listen to me!' you might talk, instead.What use is the one without the other? It took me a long time to see this distinction in Valan speech.Spinel thought over the list of 'share forms': learnsharing, worksharing, lovesharing. Do you say 'hitsharing,' too? If I hit a rock with a chisel, does the rock hit me?I would think so. Don't you feel it in your arm?He frowned and sought a better example; it was so obvious, it was impossible to explain. I've got it: if Beryl bears a child, does the child bear Beryl? That's ridiculous.A mother is born when her child comes.Or if I swim in the sea, does the sea swim in me?Does it not?Helplessly he thought, She can't be that crazy. Please, you do know the difference, don't you?Of course. What does it matter?

~ Joan Slonczewski

Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.

~ Karl R. Popper

In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.

~ Patrick White

Voices have a language of their own and communicate much more than the words that they say.

~ Indu Muralidharan

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.

~ Terry Pratchett

A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.

~ Rick Perlstein

Thank God for immigrants. They're the only ones who have any personality left. They still allow themselves emotions, judgments, and all those qualities that we are evolving past. I don't know what they're saying, but I can tell they're speaking honestly.

~ Colin Quinn

It's not about the language, it's about the message

~ Goitsemang Sandra Mvula

Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.

~ Steven Pinker

I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling. I prefer language to gesture. I figured other people might, too.

~ Aimee Bender

You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.

~ Lily King

When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others--using it as a way of setting themselves apart and shutting out strangers.

~ Charlotte Lamb

Music is the great unifier. It doesn’t matter which country you’re in or what language is being spoken, the fans just magically seem to get it. They share a common goal of love and celebration for the purity of magnificence and brilliance that has been created by the artist. It’s transcendent. It’s inspiration. It’s raw emotion. It’s communication – a perfect marriage of notes, harmonies, lyrics and melodies. It’s the beauty within the beast.

~ J.m. Nevins