3,244 Quotes About Communication

The problem with the media - is that if you talk to it, it will use things against you. And that if you don't talk to it, it will use things against you

A conversation is so much more than words: a conversation is eyes, smiles, the silences between words.

We live in a world where people profile and label each other, size each other up. What if we shifted our focus to our similarities? To welcoming one another, listening to stories, learning from one another? It's time to change the conversation. I believe most social ills can be healed or prevented by the simple act of talking to one another, face-to-face, at a common table.

I came to the conclusion that, even in life, unless I’m responding with my whole self—unless, in fact, I’m willing to be changed by you—I’m probably not really listening. But if I do listen—openly, naïvely, and innocently—there’s a chance, possibly the only chance, that a true dialogue and real communication will take place between us.

People can be reassured by a tone of voice. By a touch. A gesture. Even if the voice and gestures are false, the innocent person meets the liar halfway to complete the lie. It's a partnership.

Prose should be a direct intimacy between strangers with no appeal to what both may have known.

The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.

Reading helps you understand another person's truth, and gives you the tools to share your own truth with people you may never even meet

...he wondered if this new way of speaking to one another, this unkindness that was now creeping into their words from time to time, was a sign of where they were headed.