Intentional Communication Quotes

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware of pitfalls, and always give heed to thy walk; thou wilt have little to rue. If thy words are seldom wrong, thy deeds leave little to rue, pay will follow.

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

During the actual filming, I’m not really listening to dialogue. I’m watching to see if the actors are communicating something and expressing something. I’m just watching a conversation. You’re not aware of exactly what people are saying. You are aware of what they are INTENDING and what kind of feeling is going on in that scene.

This is a very noisy world, so we have to be very clear what we want them to know about us

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.

Some people think I'm dumb, but I feel like things I say, especially on Twitter, are done purposely, because I'm bored.

There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.

But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you.

At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious intelligenceHe becomes ever more aware that language refers to his surroundings, and his wish to master it consciously becomes also greater.Subconsciously and unaided, he strains himself to learn, and this effort makes his success all the more astonishing.

Writing is about bringing something from inside you that you're trying to say, and not just trying to say something to please someone else.

I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.

I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over however many tweets, you start to create a character for yourself.

It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send.

If you've ever had the experience of being in conversation with someone when they were fully present, listening deeply to you when you're sharing with them, you know that five minutes of a fully present conversation like that can be more powerful than 30 minutes of distracted conversation.

What I try to do, what I attempt to do, is say things that I mean at least at an emotional level.

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

There is a narrow class of uses of language where you intend to communicate. Communication refers to an effort to get people to understand what one means. And that, certainly, is one use of language and a social use of it. But I don't think it is the only social use of language. Nor are social uses the only uses of language.