björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
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björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
The Art of Communicating, Thich Nhat Hanh
... See moreWe don’t tell our fear to go away; we recognize it. We don’t tell our anger to go away; we acknowledge it. These feelings are like a small child tugging at our sleeves. Pick them up and hold them tenderly. Acknowledging our feelings without judging them or pushing them away, embracing them with mindfulness,
there are countless normal people who go through life deaf to the sounds they are making, and without the slightest interest in how they make them—let alone how they affect other people. As Cato said, nearly 2,000 years ago “Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.”
MARJORIE HELLIER • How to Develop a Better Speaking Voice
Communication is important, but improving how they talk to one another will achieve much less than will finding out what they really want to say to each other when they do
William Bridges • Transitions (40th Anniversary Edition): Making Sense of Life's Changes
Speech exists between bodies and beings; it has no place, no use, in a universe of inanimate objects. Speaking presumes hearing: by speaking, we acknowledge and animate the personhood of the listener. We make each other into persons; we transform things into beings. Speaking to others, then, is how we begin to make a more-than-human world.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
“At least, I'm the kind of person who when it comes to, say, something like language or just communicating on a daily basis, I feel like I'm trying to put an ocean through a straw.”
― Björk
― Björk
Björk Quotes (Author of Stories for Kids Who Dare to Be Different)
“Communication is about what is received, not what is intended. If there is a gap between what you are saying and what they are hearing, you have to find a new way to say it.”