#communication

People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick. ↗

— Chip Heath

#emotion #idea #semantic-stretch #communication

How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resenting them for making you feel like your pain doesn't have any substance after all? Like when you've split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands just how pissed off and frightened you feel. The problem is, they never do. "Plenty more fish in the sea," they'll say, or "You're better off without them," or "Do you want some of these potato chips?" They never really understand, because they haven't been there, every day, every hour. They don't know the way things have been, the way that it's made you, the way it has structured your world. They'll never realise that someone who makes you feel bad may be the person you need most in the world. They don't understand the history, the background, don't know the pillars of memory that hold you up. Ultimately, they don't know you well enough, and they never can. Everyone's alone in their world, because everybody's life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down. ↗

— Michael Marshall Smith

#love #only-forward #reality #communication

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone. ↗

— William Albert Allard

#alone #communicate #either #more #pictures

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. ↗

— Benjamin Banneker

#bad manners #communication #corrects #corrupts #evil

I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself. ↗

— Elizabeth Barton

#communications #even #himself #hold #i

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#communications #entirely #formal #future #markets

No. Absolutely not.” “Simon,” she said. “It’s a perfectly fine plan.” “The plan where you follow Jace and Sebastian off to some unknown dimensional pocket and we use these rings to communicate so those of us over here in the regular dimension of Earth can track you down? That plan?” “Yes.” “No,” he said. “No, it isn’t.” Clary sat back. “You don’t just get to say no.” “This plan involves me! I get to say no! No.” “Simon—” Simon patted the seat beside him as if someone were sitting there. “Let me introduce you to my good friend No. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#sarcasim #communication

It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#relationships #communication

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#communication

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#better now #communications #days #now #than