Enoch Powell Quotes

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Communication is so key.

Communication is important.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

A relationship is based on communication.

I don't always know what I want to hear, but I'm gonna try and pull it out and sing it to you, and if you hear it the way I sing it to you, then a wall is broken.

We don't care if you understand us.

You speak to be understood, right? And you're understood so you can be felt. And you're felt so you can get what you want.

I'm a big believer in communication.

I am not good at making people understand certain things.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

We lack social awareness because we're so focused on what we're going to say next - and how what other people are saying affects us - that we completely lose sight of other people. This is a problem because people are complicated. You can't hope to understand someone until you focus all of your attention in his or her direction.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.