Communication Quotes · Page 105

“SAY EXACTLY what you think until you find that no one is listening then say something else”

— Chocolate Waters

I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.

— Anonymous

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

— Tom Stoppard

Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.

— Samuel Rutherford

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

— R. Lee Ermey

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

— Anonymous

The best conversations usually happen late at night.

— Anonymous

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

— Jonathan Swift

The whole information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure must be regarded as an 'ecosystem' in which everything is interconnected. It functions as…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it…

— Dennis Potter

“If an organization wants innovation to flourish, the conversation needs to change from severance packages to retention bonuses.”

— Chris Farrell

“Rehvenge, I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.” “I thought your mother was dead.” “She is.” “You have…

— J.R. Ward

Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting…

— Alan Zweibel

I think the Merchant Ivory brand really means literate dialogue. I think it starts with that. When people say something, you know…

— James Ivory

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything…

— Brian P. Cleary

The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the…

— M. Scott Peck

I was going to be a writer, and that turned into journalist. And then that turned into a career in children's literature,…

— Damaris Phillips

“Say what you mean and mean what you say. Don’t be afraid to stand firm on the decisions that you make. Trust…

— Stephanie Lahart

Don't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object,…

— Federico Fellini

“The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does…

— Edwin H. Friedman

“Lucien had never prayed before, never imagined that there might be a deity listening who would be interested in what he had…

— Aimee Roseland

'The Decay Of Lying' is a very interesting treatise. It was actually penned as a dialogue between two characters, Cyril and Vyvyan,…

— Adrian Dunbar

The main purpose of my work is to appear in the mass media. It's not so much that I want my pictures…

— James Nachtwey

I hate when I send a long text message, and the person only replies to that one unimportant part.

— Anonymous

Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.

— Maya Hawke

If you have a great script and great dialogue, you don't need to improvise.

— Catherine O'Hara

An intelligent person is someone who listens with understanding.

— Michael Bradley

Listening is the process of creating meaning in the speaker.

— Michael Rost

Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.

— Joseph Parker

Race walking is hard. Trying to do it while maintaining a conversation is much harder.

— Bari Weiss

I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.

— Jennifer Carpenter

I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.

— Jack Ma

There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community.

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

— Anonymous

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

— Gregory Bateson

“We hear with our ears; we listen with our intution and our heart.”

— David Richo

I used to practice Tony speeches in my bathroom with my hairbrush.

— Audra McDonald

I shouldn't read back on old conversations, old memories. I need to forget.

— Anonymous

Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.

— Paulo Freire