Quotes on Languages Communication

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that enable us to maintain a perspective of empathy for ourselves and others, even under trying conditions.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.