“People communicate to be understood.”
“just how layered and complex plain speech could be, how many secrets wrapped in the banner of Sincerity”
“They did feel it, yet neither spoke of it, for often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.”
“The most powerful channel of communication is still, The Heart !”
“If you look closely at your relationships, you will see that the effectiveness of your relationships is determined by how well you communicate. How well you communicate with others is determined, by and large, by how well you listen.”
“Most of us start as strangers and eventually again become strangers.”
“Different social media networks are used for different communication to the extent that the written word still prevails over visuals. However, in the future, it will be other way around.”
“This is the oldest form of living communication; the brotherhood of breath.”
“Why is face so important? Face represents one’s self-esteem, reputation, status, and dignity. Face is social currency.”
“I realized that this was how I had operated my entire life... my feelings and sentiments were represented through files, through things made by others on the internet... links, mp3s, jpegs. Employing the work others to get around having to convey it yourself was a huge crutch of communicating on the internet.”
“Peptides operate on multiple scales: they have feedback effects on the cells of origin that modulate activity patterning, and local effects on neighboring cells to coordinate the behavior of a population; and the hormone-like release of peptides from cell populations can have organizational effects on distant targets. It s a mode of communication quite different from neurotransmitter release. Oxytocin, as we have seen, by its priming actions, can affect how oxytocin cells communicate with each other. How common such priming actions are we don t know. But all peptides can affect gene expression and can alter the behavior of neurons by changing what receptors they express and what they secrete. These actions of peptides together underlie what we might see as a reprogramming of communication in the brain.”
“With social media, everything has been “public” for quite a while now; there is nothing “nonpublic” anymore.”
“How, then, she had asked herself, did one know one thing or another thing about people, sealed as they were? Only like a bee, drawn by some sweetness or sharpness in the air intangible to touch or taste, one haunted the dome-shaped hive, ranged the wastes of the air over the countries of the world alone, and then haunted the hives with their murmurs and their stirrings; the hives which were people.”
“The gossiper’s unwillingness or inability to confront the target of their gossip becomes a defense mechanism and their cocoon becomes an effective firewall. They will avoid such a confrontation for fear that they and/or their story will be invalidated when and if new facts surface to support the position of the gossip victim.”
“It would be good to be full of holes, she says. Then all the things you can’t express would maybe just flow out.”