Quotes about Communication

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

I was talking to my publisher, Jamie Ceretta, who's one of my closest confidants and allies when I'm working on new music. I feel like I can always count on his judgement because he'll tell me if he doesn't like something. It's sometimes hard to get people to tell you if they don't like something.

It's one thing to know your lines, another to be able to deliver them. The taste of the pudding is in the delivery.

I will try exercise my freedom of speech by avoiding legalities.

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

When there are legitimate concerns and frustrations it is never cool to marginalise and ridicule the people who have those concerns.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

I was learning to recognize when God was speaking through someone. He repeats himself. He says it over and over because we are so stubborn, stupid and unwilling. And even scared. Even when he tells us not to be afraid, we set our minds about it, worrying and fretting about every little thing. I was shaken by what God expected us to do.

She was scornful. "He talks to you personally?" "He talks to everyone personally. Most people just don't bother to listen.

The child chattered like a little magpie, and Angel nodded and listened. Glancing up, Angel encountered Michael's gaze. He wants children, she thought, and the thought hit her solid in the pit of her stomach. What if he knew she couldn't have them? Would his love for her die then? She couldn't hold his gaze.

It was as though her tongue were a heavy weight in her mouth, and now her heart was even heavier for having kept silent.

Resentment and anger eat away at love as quickly as rust is corroding that metal lawn chair out there in the backyard. One of life's great tragedies is watching a relationship unravel over something that could've been resolved in one intelligent, adult conversation.