Communication Quotes · Page 139

I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

— Deborah Meier

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

— Stanley Bing

“If you can't listen to people, they hardly will follow you.”

— Alin Sav

Pray, pray, pray & then pray some more. I love my conversations with God.

— Anonymous

A marriage doesn't look after itself - it needs attention, communication, nurturing and honesty.

— Coleen Nolan

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

— Anonymous

“The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“You are addressed by the way you dress. Your attire reflects your sense of value or taste and of course, your speech…

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of…

— Sam Shepard

In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a…

— J. C. R. Licklider

“I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.”

— Sara Sheridan

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you…

— George Jessel

Donald Trump doesn't care about free speech. The man who tweets everything that enters his head doesn't care about the amendment which…

— Hasan Minhaj

Our rule is: If it makes the parent laugh, and the kid asks why, that can't be an uncomfortable conversation.

— Dan Povenmire

I do sometimes miss doing that lighter, more humorous work, and I find there's a heavier responsibility that goes along with a…

— Alison Bechdel

The most dangerous question a prospect or customer asks is "Why should I?" And he may ask it more than once... The…

— Lester Wunderman

I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius…

— Paul Laffoley

I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in…

— Paul Lansky

“Making music, dancing, the theater, conversation, proper and urbane deportment, these were cultivated here as particular arts. It was not the military,…

— Stefan Zweig

“take care, in reading the writings of philosophers or hearing their speeches, that you do not attend to words more than things,…

— Plutarch

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of…

— Robert Darnton

There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which…

— Anonymous

“You can talk to someone who wants to have a conversation, not an argument”

— Poornima

“As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.”

— Albert Camus

“She’d practically been able to see the bam, boom, pow! in dialogue bubbles next to the guy.”

— Ruby Lionsdrake

If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.

— Adyashanti

“Are you listening or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?”

— Robert Montgomery

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.

— May Sarton

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

— Buddy Guy

States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.

— George Herbert

My mom would watch me giving speeches on TV and she'd call and say, 'I don't know who this son is.'

— Dustin Lance Black

Stupid conversations make sense when you are talking to someone special.Â¥

— Anonymous

“And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?”

— Lewis Carroll

“Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.”

— Mitch Albom

“A true conversion is always only between a man and God.”

— Kiersten White

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

— Ami Bera

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

— Richard Bach

“6. Consider if the model may be a useful communication or training tool for the organization.”

— Rich Jolly