I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial words—and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant "I acknowledge that I've heard what you said; please continue.
Jim ButcherStichwörter: humor communication men-and-women
Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]
Stichwörter: reading books communication computers modern-life superficiality critical-thinking vacuity
It only becomes art if it touches other people.
Andreas EschbachStichwörter: art music philosophy communication philosophical performing
The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!
Miguel RuizStichwörter: communication
The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.
Peggy O'MaraStichwörter: children communication inner-voice child-rearing
When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.
Octavio PazStichwörter: individuality solitude communication loneliness selfhood
I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones.
Jonathan CulverStichwörter: intelligence learning communication meaning ideas humans human-beings
In the end nothing matters but the work. You can’t control how it’s taken, and the act of telling a story always involves a gap. Sometimes confusion is the risk of ambiguity–I say that to students all the time. It’s true at the fireside and it’s true in the parlor, and it’s true in made-up towns and New York. Two humans face one another, words come out of one, words go into the other mind through the ears and eyes of the listener. It’s a story. It’s simple. The gap is the thing. Make sure you build the bridge.
Patrick SomervilleStichwörter: writing communication storytelling
Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.
Jack D. ZipesStichwörter: communication fairy-tales conflict
The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.
Criss JamiStichwörter: humor thinking men women difficult communication relationships funny understanding brain funny-but-true communciation-skills thought-process
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