3,244 Quotes About Communication

If he silently decides not to say something when they’re talking, Marianne will ask ‘what?’ within one or two seconds. This ‘what?’ question seems to him to contain so much: not just the forensic attentiveness to his silences that allows her to ask in the first place, but a desire for total communication, a sense that anything unsaid is an unwelcome interruption between them.

Maybe we'd all be much more effective communicators if we all shut up more.

People can’t hear what you don’t say. Thinking isn’t communicating.

The good heart that prays for the end of others suffering ends its own suffering with such prayers. Send out your blessings to family, friends, colleagues, strangers on the street. A saint acts compassionately not because she is a saint. Rather, her compassionate acts make her a saint.

Just because a person is silent doesn’t mean there’s no message.

It is in imposing my expectations on others that I birth my greatest frustrations.

As you increase the number of people you are able to communicate with, your value rises.

Many words do not compensate for less articulation.

They aren't texts, Gregorius. What people say aren't texts. They simply talk.