Quotes about Communication
Repression, a degree of restraint, and a little dedication to self-editing belong to love just as surely as a capacity for explicit confession.
— Alain de Botton
Her mother always said one should never go to bed on an argument.
— Alain de Botton
The whole language of love had been corrupted by overuse.
— Alain de Botton
We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.
— Alain de Botton
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
— Desmond Tutu
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
— Desmond Tutu
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
— Desmond Tutu
The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
But I'm afraid I'm bad at comforting; I can listen all right, but I can hardly ever find anything to say.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for our brother and sister when we learn to listen to them.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
83]So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only service is always to have to "offer" something when they are together with other people. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking. Many people seek a sympathetic ear and do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking even when they should be listening.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If we have learned to be silent before the Word, we will also learn to manage our silence and our speech during the day.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer