Communication Differences Quotes

On the whole I prefer cats to women because cats seldom if ever use the word 'relationship'.

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.

I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.

I think there is an enormous diference between speaking and writing. One rereads what one writes. But one might read it slowly or quickly. In other words, you do not know how long you will have to spend deliberating over a sentence. ... But if I listen to a tape recorder, the listening time is determined by the speed at which the tape turns and not by my own needs.

Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.

If women are often frustrated because men do not respond to their troubles by offering matching troubles, men are often frustrated because women do.

You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

I think Gmail chats are different than IRL conversations because Gmail chats are saved by Gmail exactly as they occurred. I like texts and emails. Seems like I don't have anything to say that isn't obvious about texts, emails, and Gmail chats.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?' 'Sometimes.' 'So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.' But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?

I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

Every nation has its own language as well as its own temperament.

Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.

Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.

Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves.

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.

Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, 'cause we have a need to make sense.

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

I probably have more male friends that talk about us in a way that doesn't thrill me. I sometimes get a bit surprised when females talk like that around men.