Communication Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“So many people, he thought, don't listen to the content of what you say but only to the noises you make.”

— Tracy Kidder

“It sounded to him like the noise of too many mouths that talk and too few minds that think.”

— Lisa Unger

“One person speaking up makes more noise than a thousand people who remain silent.”

— Thom Harnett

“It seemed like an original act, the very kindest act of being human, that he listened.”

— Sue Woolfe

“Why, did you know that there are almost as many kinds of stillness as there are sounds? But, sadly enough, no one pays any…

— Norton Juster

“Sometimes I think he’s just chosen to keep quiet because it is so much more interesting sometimes to just listen to people instead of…

— Jennifer Lynch

“And he had heard the conversation, and hadn’t enjoyed it much either, because he kept on thinking that the others were taking no notice…

— C.S. Lewis

“His conversations lost some of their syllables out of shyness.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“Some people are not really good listeners. They are merely good at keeping quiet for a long time, while someone is talking to them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We all have our own signals we're listening for, or trying not to hear.”

— Lauren Elkin

“Be focused in what you do and what you say. There is much noise in the world to detrack you.”

— Moazzam Shaikh

“Quiet is really just a lot of small noises that most people don’t notice.”

— Robert Dunbar