Famous Quotes

"Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening."

Emma Thompson on Communication

More quotes about Communication

• "A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."

  Mark Twain on Communication

• "Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good."

  Lao Tzu on Communication

• "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

  George Bernard Shaw on Communication

• "Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."

  Charles Dickens on Communication

• "I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in."

  Bill Gates on Communication

More quotes by Emma Thompson

• "If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it."

• "And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?"

• "And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?"

• "We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic."

• "But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me."