communication quotes

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

Money has a language of its own.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

You can only have one aim per debate.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

I don’t write letters anymore.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

Disagreement is something normal.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.