We speak, and write, in one of the most diverse, gloriously ecumenical tongues on the planet. In English, there is a word or phrase for pretty much anything we want to say, and if there isn't, we make it up, and it is welcomed into the family. We can express ourselves as complexly or as simply as we like. We can be magniloquent didacts, or we can talk plain.
Jeff DeckTag: communication
As human beings, how do we choose to react in that instant when someone walks toward us, smiles, and begins to speak?
Jeff DeckTag: communication
Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid."
"Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provençal.
"Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement.
Tag: communication arrogance conceit mockery pope languages papal-authority
It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.
Ann BeattieTag: love communication understanding connection
He opened the first letter, No "Dear Mr. Woods." It was a page full of profanities. There was something oddly refreshing about honest, to-the-point hate mail. No hypocrisy and forced politeness. Too many letters ripped you to shreds, then closed off 'Sincerely yours.
Randy AlcornTag: humor communication
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The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You don’t even want to communicate in a relationship. You think that if you open up to love, you’ll lose your independence or your self-expression or creativity or whatever you call all that passionate, wonderful stuff that makes you feel alive inside.
Tom RobbinsTag: love communication relationships creativity
We may well find that if we are to fulfill God's mandate on earth, we will need to communicate less often so we can communicate more. We will need to forsake the ease and the pace of quantity for the reflective significance of quality.
Tim ChalliesTag: communication technology discipline
Tag: politics communication propaganda
Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion: the desperate letters stuck in the mud of the spirit of rejuvenesence and were worked up by a band of Noble Human-Beings and other riff-raff into highly artistic but inexpensive wall-adornments. Only since then has progress in communications really got into its stride. Who, in the end, is to take it amiss if even the freest of free spirits no longer write for an imaginary posterity, more trusting, if possible, than even their contemporaries, but only for the dead God?
Theodor W. AdornoTag: writing god communication futility
And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?
Polly ShulmanTag: children communication fathers
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