Communication Quotes · Page 223

“It's very easy to believe someone when they are telling you what it is you want to hear.”

— Kate McGahan

A short conversation with you is much important to me than a long conversation with someone else.

— Tanya Bianco

“Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.”

— Shannon L. Alder

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

— Bobby Bonilla

When you listen, as a human being and an actor, you can react authentically.

— Chrissy Metz

For me, listening to my breath in between the lines, allows me to be in deep connection to my spirit.

— Giancarlo Esposito

“(Conversations with her dad were like whiplash; they didn’t always hurt right away.)”

— Rainbow Rowell

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches

— Patricia Highsmith

Smh at people holding grudges over small things. Most grudges are misunderstandings that people are too childish to sit down and talk…

— Sonya Parker

“For us to respond in that way to hateful speech... we empower the worst of us .. to create chaos around the world.”

— Barack Obama

Be careful silence speaks volumes but it might not be the book you wanna check out from the library. Effective communication is…

— Gabrielle Union

I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.

— Zach Woods

In ur eyes I see my world, in ur speech I see my music, in ur arm I see my bed... In…

— Arjun

“Although I do not need to be surrounded by others in order to feel alive, I do need some conversation and distraction.”

— Iain Pears

The very presence of an angel is communication. Even when an angel crosses your path in silence, God has said to us,…

— Tobais Palmer

“If you want to communicate an idea to a man's brain, talk to him through his pecker. It's like an ear horn,…

— Kresley Cole

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.…

— Margaret Atwood

Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have…

— Flannery O'Connor

I just talk just to talk. I like to see what other people think. There's some things somebody tweets me every day…

— Torrey Smith

“I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed…

— Mindy Kaling

But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like…

— Julio Cortazar

Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the…

— Niels Bohr

My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get…

— Anne Lamott

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.

— Philip K. Dick

Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work...

— Frank Zappa

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

— Rachel Kushner

Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

— Ross Perot

I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

— Wayne Dyer

Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.

— Khalil Gibran

That's the great thing that happened with 'Roots.' It opened up the dialogue.

— Leslie Uggams

I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.

— Jeff Kinney

Once you have dialogue starting, you know you can break down prejudice.

— Harvey Milk

“Every person is a living treasure box. Listening holds the key.”

— Mollie Marti

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.

— Shirley Henderson

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

R&B is a conversation that you should be able to sit down and have.

— The-Dream

I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech.

— Ted Lieu

“Listen: We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different!”

— Kurt Vonnegut