#nic

It takes one to tell, and two to missunderstand. ↗

— H.C. Paye

#missunderstand #people #speak #tell #two

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#communication #thought #communication

The reality is that most of us communicate the same way that we grew up. That communication style becomes our normal way of dealing with issues, our blueprint for communication. It’s what we know and pass on to our own children. We either become our childhood or we make a conscious choice to change it. ↗

— Kristen Crockett

#communication #parenting #parents #change

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate. ↗

— William Golding

#communication

I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#communication

Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#cooperativeness #communication

No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another ↗

— Robert Barr

#telepathy #communication

Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. [Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006] ↗

— Harper Lee

#communication #computers #critical-thinking #modern-life #reading

You can have regret from yesterday, fear tomorrow but peace today by sharing your heart’s deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#feelings #soul #communication

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#communication