Communication Quotes

In every one of your relationships, you are on a continuum between intimacy and separation. You stand on a slide that tilts you toward either intimacy or separateness. Exactly where you stand at any given moment is the result of your decisions, your feelings, how you handle situations, and the way you and the other person communicate.

~ Anne Katherine

A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.

~ Dale Ludwig

I try asking him some more questions, but it's like talking to voice mail.

~ Michael Montoure

The phone collapsed distances, just as the radio did, and, like the radio, it relied on the miracle of imagination: one had to concentrate deeply, plunge headlong into it.

~ Daniel Alarcón

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

~ John Stuart Mill

Mobile is the digital gateway for the real world.

~ Tomi Ahonen

Men? They are simple creatures. Is there something wrong with your man? Feed him, and take him to your bed. Et Voila! All problems, they disappear. But if something is wrong with the woman? Je suis désolé. Women need to talk.– André Chevalier

~ Nikki Sex

Extroverts communicate well with others, Introverts communicate well with themselves

~ Pablo

Guys get a bad rap for not wanting to talk about their feelings but maybe women are in part to blame for that. One thing that I learned from working with people where English was not their first language was this: just because they don’t speak your language doesn’t mean that they’re dumb. Maybe we just need to talk more slowly, use simpler words and have lots more patience.

~ Dermot Davis

A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.

~ Loren Weisman

Language is not law; it is in fact a lot like music. Speech is jazz – first you learn the basic rules, and then you become good enough to improvise all the time. Writing is somewhat more like classical composition, where established forms and conditions will hold greater sway.

~ Robert Lane Greene

Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.

~ Robert Lane Greene

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into a lucid form and forcing them into the tightfitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

~ Pat Conroy

It is the dream of every white person to be able to resolve all conflicts by complaining to unrelated parties. Because of this, white people are able to endure years of frustration and anger without saying a word in the hopes that everything will just work itself out without having to make a scene.

~ Christian Lander

If teaching is largely about faculty-student interaction, then we have to recognize that human interaction is changing.

~ José Antonio Bowen

We know so little about what goes on in another person’s head.

~ Élise Turcotte

If one wants to be loved and return it full score dagger of silence closes the door.

~ David W. Earle

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

~ Frank Moore Colby

Our visuals must represent the truth and decode the verbal jumble so these children can find the right direction.

~ Adele Devine

To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority of the world's humans either speak and something primitive or speak something badly.

~ Robert Lane Greene

All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control. We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's no

~ Steve Wozniak

And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.

~ Patrick Ness

He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.

~ Rabih Alameddine

If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.

~ Neil Gaiman

[It would not be long] ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country.

~ Samuel Morse

Neither sex is wrong in their communication, both sexes need to learn how to understand each other.

~ Pamela Cummins

communication is a bridge to two or more people to understand...

~ Jinnul Jr.

Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.

~ Pamela Cummins

...and I know what it is that's going to destroy the world. Lack of communication - reciprocal communication: cultural, political, intellectual - whatever you like. But more, it's snobbery and self-deceit, which are artificial, protective barriers that prevent communication.

~ Angus Stewart

All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it.

~ Criss Jami

Never explain yourself to people, just make them feel you.

~ Toba Beta

I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.

~ Isaac Asimov

If a philosophical writer cannot be followed, the difficulty of his subject can be placed only in mitigation of his offense, not in condonation of it. There are too many expert witnesses on the other side.

~ William Zinsser

Nothing stings quite like an unanswered text message.

~ Paula Stokes

What makes somebody nice or unpleasant to be around is the way they communicate. When people are fucked up, their communication is fucked up.

~ Ryū Murakami

A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at least one disposable diaper from being used and created. One cloth diaper after another, days accumulated into years and now our next child is using the cloth diapers we bought for our firstborn.

~ Gloria Ng

If the way you've been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you'd better take a fresh look at your interpersonal communication skills.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Baby, sometimes what I’m thinking doesn’t translate into words. You’re going to have to badger them out of me until I get better at this, okay?

~ Tessa Bailey

When a person feels appreciated for their infinite and absolute value, you can then communicate about any issue and you will have their cooperation and respect.

~ Kimberly Giles

Human beings remember firsts- the first time something happens, or the begining of an experience- and we tend to remember lasts as well. So when you are about to make a critical/negative delivery , start your criticism with a positive begining, it will affect the rest of the experience. Start by giving them solid ground to stand by expressing the fact that you value them and they matter. Once they are reassured of their own worth, people will accept your comments far more easily and they'll get less defensive.

~ Olivia Fox Cabane