Quotes about Communication

Thank you sir for your criticism. If you knew about me what I know about me, you would have written a longer letter.

Simple Bible statements, apt illustrations, and pertinent anecdotes, were the more common weapons that he used. The consequence was that his hearers always understood him. He never shot above their heads. Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

Once become satisfied that a man loves you, and you will listen gladly to anything he has to say.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

In a man's letters his soul lies naked.

Terminological inexactitude

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.

MOTHER TO TEENAGER ON SUNDAY MORNING: I believe I heard the clock strike one when you came in last night. teen: Well, I know how much you need your sleep, so it was going to strike ten but I stopped it at one chime.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.