Quotes about Communication
I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.
— Amy Grant
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
— John Henry Newman
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.
— CS Lewis
To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
— Samuel Johnson
for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge
— Virginia Woolf
The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.
— Carl Jung
When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
— Publilius Syrus
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
— Oscar Wilde
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
— Heinrich Heine