Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.

Stay open to opportunity — you never know where your next important connection will be made.

God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something through to somebody.

When Internet parlance finds its way into our accepted vocabulary, it becomes a cliché.

Communication is the universal solvent

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

If your child is constantly interrupting or doing other things to get your attention, he is not getting enough communication of the right kind. Just the fact that you are in the house with him all day does not mean that you are necessarily devoting any time to communication of his choice.

Clarity is a sign of intellectual energy.

There’s the emotional work that comes with living with someone who’s not you and who therefore has different preferences ans styles of communicating. She might prefer to talk for three days straight if that’s what it takes to resolve an argument, while you would rather fill your pockets with granite and walk into the ocean.

If a philosophical writer cannot be followed, the difficulty of his subject can be placed only in mitigation of his offense, not in condonation of it. There are too many expert witnesses on the other side.

True friendship does not require constant communication because your consistent trust in a true friend is always constant.

normal” people want to be able to truthfully say, but almost no one can.

Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly...

Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.

Kids will remember less what we did for them and more how we spoke and reacted to them.

Do you know what every instructor in the world wants from you? He or she really, really wants you to do two things: Demonstrate that you have understood the course material and write intelligently about your subject.

Developing your blog is a balancing act between appeasing current readers and reaching out to new ones.

Becoming an effective letter writer means analyzing each situation individually and choosing the form of correspondence accordingly.

Baby, sometimes what I’m thinking doesn’t translate into words. You’re going to have to badger them out of me until I get better at this, okay?

As long as you have a Cell Phone you’re never alone

She never opened her mail in the middle of the day. Sometimes she forgot about it for a week or more until people rang to complain. Nor did she check her answering machine messages. In fact, it had only been in the last year that she had finally bought an answering machine, and she steadfastly...

In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to credible experiences of meaning. It did this by tying language to the gold standard of what things themselves communicate. Where randomness is disabled, authority should shine forth.

He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get through most of his days on stock answers to stock questions, he thought. Once he catches onto the game, he can manage with an assortment of grunts. This would not be so if people listened to each other,...

The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You don’t even want to communicate in a relationship. You think that if you open up to love, you’ll lose your independence or your self-expression or creativity or whatever you...

I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good chance of winning, while I was traveling through hell.

Advances in communication technology foster a false fantasy of togetherness by transmitting the impression of contact- phone calls, faxes, e-mail- without its substance. And when a relationship is ailing from frank time deprivation, both parties often aver that nothing can be done. Every activity they spend time on (besides each other) has been classified as...

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.

Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can’t change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or...

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.

What skills you need in this job are not particularly unique to racing–good leadership skills, good communication skills, and good consensus-building skills. You have to understand the dynamics of business in general.

This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpected new freedom.

Don’t bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING…. The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point…. Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion.

A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.

Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean.But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they...

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey.At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.

The words, I love you, are empty without clarification. Women prefer to be told what they can expect. It is measurable like a Weight Watcher’s diet, with extra points at the end of the week if you don’t cheat.

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

When the person you love can’t see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.

Money isn’t the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.

Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.

Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can’t figure out how in the hell to communicate with people.

When we say something, our subjective intention or situation is always involved. So there is no perfect word; some distortion is always present in a statement.

When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions; you should just listen to him, just observe what his way is. We put very little emphasis on right and wrong or good and bad. We just see things as they are with him, and accept them. This...

If you don’t know the question, you are not ready for the answer.

On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they’d liked what I’d written and by the by, more about them than I’d ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk.

We’re here to communicate a message to people, and we have to go where the people are, … Downtown Clearwater is like swimming upstream for us. Parking is a headache, and no one lives downtown.

The new contract between writers and readers is one I’m prepared to sign up to. I’ve met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.

I’ve found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It’s possible to make a connection with any kind of writing – as long as the writing is good.