Quotes about Communication
Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.
- Lou Holtz
If you're explaining, you're losing.
- Ronald Reagan
I spoke to ears that refused to hear.
- Ronald Reagan
For years, I've heard the question: "How could an actor be president?" I've sometimes wondered how you could be president and not be an actor.
- Ronald Reagan
In the light of this clarification of the finite/infinite distinction, we can see that 'revelatory' action, including whatever events allow us a closer conscious share in infinite agency (in the love of the Trinity, to use the conventional theological phrasing), will be, not an interruption of the finite sequence, but a particular configuration of finite agency such that it communicates more than its own immanent content.
- Rowan Williams
He had thought that to pray was to talk; he learned that to pray is not only to keep silent, but to listen. And that is how it is: to pray is not to listen to oneself speak, but is to come to keep silent, and to continue keeping silent, to wait, until the person who prays hears God.
- Soren Kierkegaard
He writes because for him doing so is a luxury, the more agreeable and conspicuous the fewer who but and read what he writes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
So soon as I talk I express the universal, and if I do not do so, no one can understand me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you can do that, if you can find exactly the place where the other is and begin there, you may perhaps have the luck to lead him to the place where you are. For to be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. No, to be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner.
- Soren Kierkegaard
People who do not know how to remain silent, do not know how to talk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
- Saint Jerome
Always think of passing the ball before shooting it.
- John Wooden