Quotes about Communication
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
- Aristotle
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
- Dale Carnegie
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as I do with the theologian. I'm in an odd world where I make things and share them with people.
- Rob Bell
I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is one of the reasons, moreover, that the scriptures remain paradigmatic for how we are to write.
- Stanley Hauerwas
I don't know if speaking to a therapist is right for everyone.
- James Arthur
How we think about the world and - perhaps even more importantly - how we narrate it have a massive significance, therefore, a thing that happens and is not told ceases to exist and perishes.
- Olga Tokarczuk
One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.
- Miguel
If you're going out for a meal with friends, and they say they can't afford to go to such and such a place, you can't force them to afford it.
- Phyllis Logan
One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.
- Max Lucado
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
- Cicero
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
- Paul Graham