Smile more to attract more.
Silence is not a language, it's a weapon to make your dear one to feel
Patience is a virtue as they say and listening is an exercise in patience.
A Dom intent on developing a relationship will approach you on a personal level first.
For some reason I was reluctant to ask anybody what had happened. I hate being the person who always doesn't know what's going on and has to ask somebody; it always seems like everybody else knows...
The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same...
In every one of your relationships, you are on a continuum between intimacy and separation. You stand on a slide that tilts you toward either intimacy or separateness. Exactly where you stand at any...
... for she soars with the wildest hyperbole when not tagging after the most pedestrian dictum.
Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.
The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.
Illusion of transparency: We always know what we mean by our words, and so we expect others to know it too. Reading our own writing, the intended interpretation falls easily into place, guided by our...
To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from What information do I need to convey? to What questions do I want my audience to ask?
I wanted to say a lot but wasn't sure where to start
We wear many things, but that with greatest import is our expression.
We all tell stories - to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.
Sometimes we are able to better understand a theory or concept through a story… such stories teach you, enlighten you, and entertain you at the same time.
The next time someone gets on your nerves, remember your two choices: 1) share the problem; or 2) let them keep the problem to themselves.
Compromising is the only path that all happy couples travel on.
Words can't explain everything. But silence never fails to mean something
There are many kinds of silences and not all signify absence or vacancy... Those moments are but temporary ebbs before the flow of meaning rushes in to fill the space... God may be speaking in ways we...
Nancy took her tiny little baby and held him down toward Norton. "Look Norton," she said, "This is a baby." Norton looked up at Charlie, took him in, and sort of nodded as if assimilating the...
It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.
Don't ever mistake silence for ignorance, when it is obviously stupidity
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
Do you really want to know how I feel?
Over a seven year span, only 10% of college slaying remained in place.
Mr Hawkins said nothing
The creation of language is the creation of a fiction. The minute we speak we are in that fiction. It's a fiction designed, we hope, to reveal a truth. There is no "pure" language. The only "pure...
We each have our own language. Our own way of thinking, of talking to ourselves, of making sense of the world and putting it in order. A narration style that is ours and ours alone. That's why some of...
An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...