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Communication Quotes by Deborah Tannen
- Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
- Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence
- Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert…
- The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
- Communication is a continualbalancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacyand independence. To survivein the world, we have to act in concert with others, but…
More Communication Quotes
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- Journalism is literature in a hurry. — Matthew Arnold
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov
- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood
- A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. — Gaston Bachelard
- Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak… — Francis Bacon
- What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's… — Erykah Badu
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot