Quotes about Communication
It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry we will have to field in any new acquaintance) that the quality of our reception is likely to be decided.
- Alain de Botton
Art builds up self-knowledge, and is an excellent way of communicating the resulting fruit to other people.
- Alain de Botton
Wanting to sound like other people has its temptations. There are inherited habits of speech guaranteed to make us sound authoritative, intelligent, worldly, appropriately grateful, or deeply moved.
- Alain de Botton
He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.
- Alain de Botton
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