It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.

lost time.” You may find writings or drawings which you must have done, but do not remember producing. Perhaps you find child-sized clothing or toys in your home but have no children. You might also...

Overcommunicate. It’s better to tell someone something they already know than to not tell them something they needed to hear.

Nationalist (forces around the world) could now more readily communicate and share their grievances, viewing themselves as similar groups, engaged in a common struggle for greater autonomy against control exerted from London or Paris.

If I went back to college again, I’d concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

After simmering years of censorship and repression, the masses finally throng the streets. The chants echoing off the walls to build to a roar from all directions, stoking the courage of the crowds as they...

All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding – saying what you have...

Renaldina told Renaldo and Renaldo told me, so that’s two points for possible miscommunication, especially when you consider that she’s deaf and he’s blind, so it went through two language variations and two incompatible methods...

When someone does`nt wanna talk to you, you have no choice but to help them.

Teach me to speak the language of men.

Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.

I’m learning sign language to be a better communicator and masturbator.

There are those that wonder which is worse: Not being able to reach out or not having anyone to reach for. There are some that ponder which is the greater ache: Not being able to...

When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.

We love those to whom we can tell our story.

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can’t escape. Life was easier then. You just didn’t pick up the phone.

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one puts into one’s words does not carve out a direct path for itself,...

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman...

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and...

Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even so, Nelson Mandela made it a point to learn this language in prison...

Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say.

In the non-material scenario, both temple or total quality gets raised, deploying communication as mortar, culture as reinforcement, and commitment as concrete.

Horses don’t speak, but they communicate through body language. If you look very closely, you’ll find out your horse has been trying to talk to you every day.

A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.

Did you have fun in school today?!” She’ll sense how important it is that the answer be yes.

If you give customers a chance, they’ll communicate with you in many ways.

Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.

If you have feelings for someone, let them know. It doesn’t matter if they can be in your life or not. Maybe, it is just enough for both of you to release the truth, so...

Now we have so many methods of communication: Land phone, Fax, Pager, Mobile phone, Texting, E mail, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram…and the list keeps growing…….But Communication itself has not improved!

Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.

The statement took a modest step toward becoming more forward looking. That is the direction we see of communication more generally.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We...

He tries to force the anger down, but it’s like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.

Parenting should always come from a place of unconditional loving.

Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one.

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with...

So long as that word is yes.” If the word would’ve been no, I’d have said no.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it’s amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be...

Without trust and respect, only fear and distrust of others’ motives and intentions are left. Without trust and respect between parties, it is nearly impossible to find good solutions to effective communication.

Never mind your intentions. Communication is about what others hear with your words.

Think about it: send SLASH receive. Email is the frenzied killer of proper communication.

Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world… We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.

Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they’re communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they’re actually having, the conversation...

I try asking him some more questions, but it’s like talking to voice mail.

Lo importante en nuestra sociedad no es lo que pasa, sino quién cuenta lo que pasa.

Human beings remember “firsts”- the first time something happens, or the begining of an experience- and we tend to remember “lasts” as well. So when you are about to make a critical/negative delivery , start...

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that...

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.