It's true that over-apologizing interrupts the flow of conversation and irritates the person who has to stop and offer reassurance, like, "No,… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If I go to a party I don't feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
“A kiss, he said, is a conversation. Easing closer, he continued to speak as he caressed her cheeks with featherlight stokes of… — Kristen Callihan Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“He thought he kept the universe alone; For all the voice in answer he could wake Was but the mocking echo of… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Back in bed I listen to every sound. The plastic tarp over the table on the balcony crunching in the cold wind.… — Josh Kilmer-Purcell Copy Share Image
If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found - including recourse to opportune… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
NVC is language, thoughts, communication skills and means of influence that serve my desire to do three things: 1) to liberate myself… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“One will seem to promote virtue better by using encouragement and persuasion of speech than law and necessity. For it is likely… — Democritus Copy Share Image
There is no law that guarantees press access to the White House. Communication was lessening during the Obama years. There was every… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
“Keep to the 'I-statements' and discuss your feelings, she lectured herself. I think, I feel. Don't be accusatory. Don't tell him that… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue,… — Corey Reynolds Copy Share Image
What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I haven't always been good at flirting, but I've learned that flirting is all about confidence. I don't think it's about being… — Sevyn Streeter Copy Share Image
If you are a speechwriter, you have to know what the person you're writing for thinks. A lot of foreign policy advisers… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
With his economic speeches in response to Obama's 'you didn't build that' fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Information and Communication technologies have not so much changed cultural practices as reproduced and facilitated them. Groups and nations become networks, and… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
There's actually a wonderful quote from Stanley Fish, who is sometimes very polemical and with whom I don't always agree. He writes,… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
“He had never clearly fathomed the true weight of a word of good, truth, and purity cast in the stream of human… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
If we meet and I say, "Hi," That's a salutation. If you ask me how I feel, That's a consideration. If we… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
With 'The Keep,' I began with a theory about pitting the isolated disconnection of the gothic realm against present-day hyperconnectedness. I emerged… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“I think of you, Melanie. I see your face in every woman. I flew here just to see you. Communication. Relationships. Those… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech… — Julius Genachowski Copy Share Image
Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book… All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“this is the conversation I’ve been having since the 2016 election ended and liberals and progressives have been scrambling to figure out… — Ijeoma Oluo Copy Share Image
“One conversation! One simple, honest, true conversation, and all your questions would be answered, all your problems solved! Really, man, is it… — Anne Elisabeth Stengl Copy Share Image
Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“George W. Bush gave this response to the question of ‘Why do they hate us?’: ‘…They hate our freedoms: our freedom of… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
“Part of the value of the ongoing dialogue is you can tell pretty quickly who’s faking it, because the good conversations and… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“There's a flag for every nation in the System," said the captain. ''I'd like to communicate with the ship, but she's already… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
A lot of us simply disengaged from politics altogether, but then we woke up and went wow, wait a minute. Why does… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“We actually all tend to make assumptions when it comes to those we love. It’s called the closeness-communication bias. As wonderful as… — Kate Murphy Copy Share Image
You meet someone. You two get close. It's all great for awhile. Then someone stop trying. Talk less. Awkward conversation. The drifting,… — Any Copy Share Image