Communication Quotes

[Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. A miracle, he said. You got him to speak. Just to shout at me, really, said Tessa. Not quite loaves and fishes.

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

By overcoming biases - be it through a closer and more honest examination of ourselves, deeper self-knowledge, an understanding of the patterns of thoughts and behaviors we experience, or any other method - we can undo these mental blocks and reignite a passion for honest, genuine, and will-intentioned discourse.

Focusing on and prioritizing civil discourse ensures that you don’t miss great opportunities to learn and grow with others.

Speak to me: I will spend my lifetime trying to understand you.

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

Conversation often becomes mere verbal performance and oral horseplay rather than fair-minded communication. (Juicy rumours )

When it comes to meditation, one minute is better than zero. Something is an improvement from nothing.

If he silently decides not to say something when they’re talking, Marianne will ask ‘what?’ within one or two seconds. This ‘what?’ question seems to him to contain so much: not just the forensic attentiveness to his silences that allows her to ask in the first place, but a desire for total communication, a sense that anything unsaid is an unwelcome interruption between them.

Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be intolerably screaming, if it means absence of communication, deficiency in friendship and emotional deficit. (« A gap of silence)

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.

Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won't spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a true disciple of Christ. Blessed is the person that takes the time to heal and hear another person so they can move on.

When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me

True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian.

What exactly did you find in Atlanta? Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out souvenirs. Some peach preserves. A couple of T-shirts. A snow globe. And, um, these not-really-Chinese handcuffs. Annabeth forced herself to stay calm. How about you start from the top—of the story, not the backpack.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.