Communication Quote by Terry Pratchett Download Open image “The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.” — Terry Pratchett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Listening Philosophy Talking Trouble
In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The big problem was subvocalization, or the sounding out of words in his mind as he read them. He couldn’t seem to squelch the… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
“In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Why bother with other people's worlds made of words? was his philosophy.” — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Here's one of the problems with communicating in the words of a man who is not around to explain himself: it's damn hard sometimes… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“It was that his words, his telling, just did not synchronize with what his hearers believed would (and must) be the scope of a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The man who uses big words is afraid that if people knew what he was talking about, they would know he didnt know what… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“He ran his mind over the things they had said, the random, unnecessary things which had eddied round and round and used up all the time, and drawn them so close together and flung them so far apart and left him in the end unsatisfied, ignorant still of what she felt and of what she was like. What was the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I was stunned. He wasn't much of a talker in the best of times, but man, when he put his mind into it, he… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There is a night that never comes to an end… The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image