Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most...

Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.

The essence of communication is intention.

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.

Words alone can effect great good as well as evil. A few apt words have swept candidates into office, ended as well as started wars, paved the way for peace and carried with them both...

Proper posture sends a positive message since 90% of all communication occures through body language and how you carry yourself.

Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of...

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

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

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

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.

Peace can only be achieved by a contrite spirit, open communication and tolerance.

All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control. We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person...

Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.

There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can’t trust each other and there is no trust between them if their hearts can’t accept the truth of each other.

Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.

Sometimes language can’t even read the music of meaning.

It takes one to tell, and two to missunderstand.

Quotes tell a story. A stringing together of a few words can leave you with an idea that changes the course of your life, and can direct you toward reaching your highest potential as a...

Wisdom does not only reflect itself in a person’s knowledge of what to say. It appears also in his knowledge about how to say it and when it should be said!

When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information I’m trying to convey) is only one part of it....

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly.

Language is the proper way to communicate, followed closely by five balled up fingers forming a fist and flying at a face. Violence is never the answer—unless the question is: What the fuck are you...

It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.

In the event of a communication breakdown, decide whether you will dwell in the negative or rise above the angst and turmoil in a firm, positive manner and encourage all parties to listen and be...

That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the “New York Slide”: you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall...

If a conversation is not working, then you need to make a different choice. Stop what you are doing & do something different.

It doesn’t matter if people doesn’t know that you do a good thing nor the right thing. But he nor she must know your expression of love.

Geez, what do I need to do, use semaphore? I told you I was unclaimed.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

These trap and trace orders, though, were not used to identify or record the contents of the communication,

On a visit or vacation to Toba Lake,you may say ‘Horas’ to Batak people,when we meet, visit and shake hands.

The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard.

In politics, if you’re explaining, you’re loosing.

Prayer is inward communication with yourself; action is outward conversation with God.

A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was...

Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won’t spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a...

You need to forgive people you don’t understand; if not, try to understand people you want to forgive.

Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]

It only becomes art if it touches other people.

Successful couples learn the secret of fighting for their relationship rather than against one another.

It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse...

any communication for commercial purposes that is available to any minor and that includes any material that is harmful to minors.

The symbol of the Lotus flower gives a precious teaching that can inspire us to deal with life in the best possible way. Its roots take nourishment from muddy waters and yet bloom in full...

It was tough getting used to, but communication is so much more vital playing at the collegiate level. In that nature, I’m more of a quiet person so the biggest adjustment was being vocal; and...

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly ‘I don’t know.

I keep my phone on vibrate, and I keep it close to my genitals. You should call me. A lot.