I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don’t say what it wants to hear. | |
— Karl Kraus | |
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2014 | Start Today |
2013 | Fly!! |
2012 | Greater Love |
2011 | Before |
Posts Tagged ‘On Communication’
Say What?
Posted in Humor, Quotes, tagged Humor, Karl Kraus, On Communication, Quotes on September 20, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Just Between Me
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged Jules Feiffer, My Journal, On Communication, Quotes on September 14, 2014| Leave a Comment »
If you’re not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside? | |
— Jules Feiffer | |
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2013 | Beyond The Strings |
2012 | Saving The Union |
2011 | Still And Too Often |
Watching Faux News
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged Edward R. Murrow, Fox (Faux) News, On Communication, On Politics, Quotes on December 14, 2013| 2 Comments »
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. | |
— Edward R. Murrow | |
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2012 | Speaking Of Products |
2011 | Ready To Be Immortal? |
More Than Just Words
Posted in Quotes, tagged On Communication, Quotes, Sydney J. Harris on October 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through. | |
— Sydney J. Harris | |
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2012 | Egotist, n. |
2011 | Good And Bad |
Oh Yes He Can!
Posted in Quotes, Reading, tagged Cold Days, Harry Dresden, Jim Butcher, On Communication, On Conversations, On Listening, On Men And Women, Quotes, Superpowers on September 22, 2013| 4 Comments »
I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they’re communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they’re actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person’s body language. | |
That is, on many levels astounding to me. I mean, that’s like having a freaking superpower. When I, and most other people with a Y chromosome, have a conversation, we’re having a conversation. Singular. We’re paying attention to what is being said, considering that, and replying to it. All these other conversations that have apparently been going on for the last several thousand years? I didn’t even know that they EXISTED until I read that stupid article, and I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one. | |
I felt somewhat skeptical about the article’s grounding. There were probably a lot of women who didn’t communicate on multiple wavelengths at once. There were probably men who could handle that many just fine. I just wasn’t one of them. | |
So, ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband or brother or male friend, and you are telling him something perfectly obvious, and he comes away from it utterly clueless? I know it’s tempting to think to yourself, “The man can’t possibly be that stupid!” | |
But yes. Yes, he can. | |
— Harry Dresden | |
The narrative character in the novel: “Cold Days“ | |
Written by: Jim Butcher | |
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2012 | Enquiries |
2011 | The Prize: Understanding |
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