communication Quotes

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.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

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

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

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

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.