communication quotes

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Coffee is a language in itself.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.