I sometimes think that writing is like driving a sheep down the road. If there’s any gate open to the left or the right the reader will most certainly go into it.

The captain made a distress call and later switched off the radio communication to avoid being traced by the hijackers. He told us that they were safe and were sailing to destination.

Our visuals must represent the truth and decode the verbal jumble so these children can find the right direction.

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

Sometimes I text the “wrong” person … on purpose. Just to start a conversation.

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into...

Worte entfremden. Sprache ist kein Medium für Begehren. Begehren ist Hingerissensein, nicht Austausch. Nur dadurch, dass die Sprache das Begehrte entfremdet, beherrscht sie es.

I sent a message silently, through body language and body odor.

I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to avoid. Christmas, birthdays. Dry lips. On their best married days, their communications were...

Before you can be effective in communication with ANYONE else, you must know who YOU are. It begins with you. Believe me when I say, I don’t need anyone’s approval in this classroom … I’m...

The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty.

As human beings, how do we choose to react in that instant when someone walks toward us, smiles, and begins to speak?

If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they’re not going to like you. They don’t want...

If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I’d answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask,...

Writing begins as a solitary obsession and ends up as communication.

Communication is not a one-way street.

I tried all kinds of approaches: sexy, friendly, intimidating—nothing worked. I’m starting to think there’s an invisible force field that prevents honest communication between X and Y chromosomes.

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.

He opened the first letter, No “Dear Mr. Woods.” It was a page full of profanities. There was something oddly refreshing about honest, to-the-point hate mail. No hypocrisy and forced politeness. Too many letters ripped...

Perhaps we now need to engineer scarcity in our communications, in our interactions, and in the things we consume. Otherwise our lives become like a Morse code transmission that’s lacking breaks – a swarm of...

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

Clarity is a sign of intellectual energy.

We may well find that if we are to fulfill God’s mandate on earth, we will need to communicate less often so we can communicate more. We will need to forsake the ease and the...

He may be my half brother, but we’re not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.” (p. 70)

Wants” can be anything from a woman wanting a man to have certain materialistic things, or she could want him to look a certain way, those are a few examples of the things that some...

When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the...

A lot of people think that technology is holding back wireless communication, but it’s not. It’s compelling uses that are holding back wireless. Nobody knows what it’s good for because they haven’t had an opportunity...

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...

We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning...

For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.

If you can’t communicate, then you don’t have a relationship!

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Technology is great…when it works.

She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of those may or may not have been true. It’s kind of hard to...

He wanted to go on for hours. He wanted someone to listen to him and to understand that speech wasn’t just about communicating ideas or opinions. Sometimes, it was about trying to convey whole human...

I always keep the weather in my pocket, so no matter where I go, I always have something to talk about. Sudden thunderstorms embarrass me.

With a phone to each ear, I’m efficient. One mouth, two ears, and two phones, I can talk to two people at once—and listen to neither.

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

You have really good communication skills. Not only are you willing to make that face-to-face contact, you also have a nice tone.

He made the right protection calls. We had communication problems and execution problems. If you line up and get beat physically, I can take that. But we had guys missing assignments. That bothered me more...

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about...

The benefit of such horizontal interactions – people sharing knowledge across fields – is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.

Isn’t one of the first lessons of good elocution that there’s nothing one can say in any rambling, sprawling rant that can’t, through some effort, be said shorter and better with a little careful editing?...

I sort of kind of said something a little like that but maybe not clearly enough to sound like that… But it’s what I meant.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Rather than whinge on how another has treated you, give a thought to what it is your upset with? Is It really them or is it yourself.. Did they cross a boundary or have you...

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

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...

Never explain yourself to people, just make them feel you.