Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

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

If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Mistrust and misunderstanding are the major obstacles for people getting together .

When I entered the music industry, the biggest struggle was reaching out to people.

I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors.

Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.

Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And come back together again with a whole new meaning In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent ((Did You Get My Message?))

The nature of bad news affects the teller.

I'm only the messenger.

As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.

If your partner asks you if something bothers you, and something bothers you, the best thing you can do is say, "Yes, it bothers me." Otherwise you create a situation where they think everything is fine, continue with the offending behavior, while you build up a secret reservoir of resentment that will eventually come pouring out, to their shock.

I don't know. I don't have a fax machine, so I didn't get that message.

The message is always going to get through. Me being able to speak is a message in itself.

Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.