796 quotes found
“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 wha...”
“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...”
“Extroverts communicate well with others, Introverts communicate well with themselves”
“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 la...”
“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 classi...”
“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.”
“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 the...”
“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 withou...”
“If one wants to be loved and return it full score dagger of silence closes the door.”
“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 prim...”
“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...”
“He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.”
“[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 th...”
“ communication is a bridge to two or more people to understand...”
“Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.”
“...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...”
“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...”
“I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.”
“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 oth...”
“Nothing stings quite like an unanswered text message.”
