How can I shut downIf you don't open up??

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

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Often in close relationships, the subject being discussed is not the subject at all.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg Communication Love Miscommunication Real Love Relationships

I saw a stop sign, and it occurred to me that just as no one expects a stop sign to stop a car, I shouldn’t expect words to substitute for experience. That’s not their job, although words certainly can be misused in that way. The job of words is to direct us toward experience, to round out experience, to facilitate experience, and to give us ways to share at least pale shadows of that experience with those we love. And the job of words is to help us learn to be — and act — human.

~ Derrick Jensen

Derrick Jensen Communication Experience Human Miscommunication Share Words Writing

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us...and nothing.

~ Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Communication Miscommunication Misunderstanding Talking Words

Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express our thoughts in words. And when the other person hears our words, something gets lost in translation again, because words mean different things to different people. A long time may mean 10 hours to one person, but 10 days to another. So when a thought is formed in my brain, and my mouth expresses it in words, and your ears hear it, and your brain processes it, your brain and my brain never truly see exactly the same thing. Communication is always just an approximation.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

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You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

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remember that misuse of language can lead to miscommunication, and that miscommunication leads to everything that has ever happened in the whole of the world

~ Joseph Fink

Joseph Fink Language Miscommunication Welcome To Night Vale

I mean …” Dennis was saying, looking pointedly at Mave, but Mave was watching the waitress approach. Oh, life, oh, sweet, forgiven for the ice … He grabbed Mave’s wrist. There was always an emergency. And then there was love. And then there was another emergency. That was the sandwiching of it. Emergency. Love. Emergency. “I mean, it’s not as if you’ve been dozing off,” Dennis was saying, his voice reaching her now, high and watery. “I mean, correct me if I’m wrong,” he said, “but I don’t think I’ve been having this conversation alone.” He tightened his grip. “I mean, have I?

~ Lorrie Moore

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Words are the source of misunderstandings.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry Communication Miscommunication

Bridge miscommunications by talking to parents, hearing their stories, and learning how they’ve shaped yours.

~ Jason L. Ma

Jason L. Ma Communication Miscommunication Outlook Parents Perspectives On Life

Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.

~ Bernard Werber

Bernard Werber Communication Miscommunication Misunderstanding

So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.

~ Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card Ender Genius Miscommunication War