Communication Quotes · Page 179

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.

— Bashar al-Assad

“You didn't listen to me," he murmured against my shoulder. "I never listen to you.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Uhh, I am the topic of conversation this a celebration.

— Drake

Listen, if anyone hits you on the chin you are probably going to get hurt.

— James DeGale

Okay, outside," the clerk said. "Conversation outside. Bye! Have a nice night!

— Maggie Stiefvater

I like to invent the dialogue that I want to have heard.

— Lynne Tillman

“When we lack the ability to talk back to entities that are culturally and politically powerful, the very foundations of free speech…

— Naomi Klein

My mother raised three girls, really, pretty much on her own, and she didn't have time for play or conversation or whatever.…

— Angie Dickinson

The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know…

— Lissie

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists…

— Laurie Graham

“Are you joining a conversation or taking it over? Stay aware of how you join a conversation and of your effect on…

— Loren Weisman

Writing is a spiritual path. It helps you listen to your heart, trust your inner guidance, and live your life full-out.

— Robert Holden

Conscious listening is very largely overlooked in the mainstream of education. It's such an important skill in life. And yet we expect…

— Julian Treasure

“There is no amount of communication or work that can overcome being with someone who does not want what you want.”

— Kevin Darné

I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want…

— Christina Dodd

Whether your purpose for writing is artistic expression, communication with friends and family, the healing of the inner life, or achieving public…

— Pat Schneider

“Put bluntly, the struggle that so many companies have to differentiate or communicate their true value to the outside world is not…

— Simon Sinek

“My speech impediment had been absent for some time now—four months and six days. I’d almost imagined myself cured. So when Mother…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I’m now much less of an asset to the company than I could be. I keep my head down and for self-preservation…

— Gary Chapman

The bigger you grow, the more intimate communication has to be. It almost has to be belly and belly. As you get…

— Anita Roddick

“What we didn't need to know, we didn't need to ask. Some people just don't quite get the gist of that. You…

— Cecelia Ahern

I just saw dialogue, in the audition, and had no backstory. I was like, "I'm just going to be myself because I…

— Giles Matthey

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

— Moliere

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

— Deborah Bull

It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

— Rainbow Rowell

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.

— Ken Loach

Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry.

— Mindy Kaling

“[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.”

— Rick Moody

“You are good when you are fully awake in your speech.”

— Kahlil Gibran

“VIBES NEVER EVER LIE; SO YOU BETTER LISTEN WHEN THEY TALK!”

— Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

— Tom Stoppard

I try meeting new people, but 99.9% of them couldn't hold a conversation if their life depended on it.

— Anonymous

“No relationship can survive without trust, honesty, and communication, no matter how close you are.”

— J. Sterling

Sometimes hiding behind masculinity with your homies can get in the way of having a real dialogue.

— Y'lan Noel

The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone

— Richard Sennett

Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.

— Twiggy Lawson

Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“God glorifies himself in communicating himself, and he communicates himself in glorifying himself.”

— David Mathis