Communication Quotes - Page 7

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.

He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us." (p. 70)

Parenting should always come from a place of unconditional loving.

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

Teach me to speak the language of men.

That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the "New York Slide": you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away.

With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.

Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.

Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [...] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.

It only becomes art if it touches other people.

Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people

Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.

If teaching is largely about faculty-student interaction, then we have to recognize that human interaction is changing.

It takes one to tell, and two to missunderstand.

On a visit or vacation to Toba Lake,
you may say 'Horas' to Batak people,
when we meet, visit and shake hands.

We know so little about what goes on in another person’s head.

I like people who can keep the conversation going no matter how random the topic gets.

Look in the mirror. What you see there is what you get from others. When you smile, smile comes back to you. When you get angry, anger comes back to you. When you love, love comes back to you, when you hate, hatred comes back to you.
That's very simple. You can make your life however you like by how you behave.