#communication

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time. ↗

— Anna Deavere Smith

#language #communication

Here's what I think, Mr. Wind-Up Bird," said May Kasahara. "Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I'd really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person. But I can't seem to do it. They just don't get it. Of course, the problem could be that I'm not explaining it very well, but I think it's because they're not listening very well. They pretend to be listening, but they're not, really. So I get worked up sometimes, and I do some crazy things. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#communication

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ↗

— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#relationships #communication

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

— Chip Heath

#emotion #idea #semantic-stretch #communication

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

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#beyond #dead #fire #language #living

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this. ↗

— Mary Martin

#substitute #words #work

As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly. ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#amend #communication #country #electronic #government

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are. ↗

— David Dinkins

#be happy #communications #country #culture #finance

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#church #communications #confronting #employ #full