#nic

When it comes to words Mamma says, "If they are not good, then maybe they should not be said. ↗

— Annette Bridges

#inspirational #words-of-wisdom #words-to-live-by #communication

I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me. ↗

— Octavia E. Butler

#speech #communication

Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in all places, in all times. ↗

— Rives Collins

#communication

Sometimes nothing is the best thing to say and often the best thing to do. ↗

— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

#communication #relationships #communication

They were two people staring at each other knowingly, communicating psychically amidst an ocean of deaf, dumb and blind meatsacks. ↗

— Travis Luedke

#psychic #telepathy #communication

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#mind #understanding #communication

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#learning #speaking #writing #communication

Try saying this: 'What's true for me today is that I have angry feelings concerning what I heard you say when you said what you said. It reminds me of what my mother said when she said what she said, and that hurts me so that's where I'm at with this, and it's not all right with me for today.' This should help to avoid a lot of communication problems. ↗

— Judith Stone

#humor #communication

In order to see, I have to be willing to be seen. ↗

— John Stewart

#communication

The church is missionary by nature because God through the Spirit calls, creates, and commissions the church to communicate to the world that the redemptive reign of God has broken into human history. ↗

— Craig Van Gelder

#communication