Communication Quote by Maria Konnikova

“Why should conversation always be so much more coherent than experience?”

— Amy Leach

“In short, dozens of conflicting, truncated impressions were already teasing to be understood, but the wisest course seemed to me to keep them to…

— Philip Roth

“I’ve since learned that when someone changes the conversational direction, it serves as a powerful marker of what is on his or her mind.”

— James W. Pennebaker

“I have a theory that sometimes people think they need to talk as much as possible, almost as if talking more equates to knowing…

— Mary Mihalic

“Talkative people, for example, are rated as smarter, better-looking, more interesting, and more desirable as friends.”

— Susan Cain

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

— Will Rogers

“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.”

— Descartes

“Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?”

— Karen Witemeyer

“Of course people need not be always talking well. Only one tells the quality of their minds when they try to talk well.”

— George Eliot

“Your unconscious inner conversation has helped you mimic the people around you rather than understand yourself better.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

“We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the…

— Donna Goddard

“The conversation advanced with remarkable ease. Talk is cheerful, the way talk is among people who rarely see one another and are surprised they…

— Richard Rodriguez