Lyall Watson Quotes

If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.

To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.

In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the range of our communication, does not some burden lightened, some bond loosened, some yoke lifted, some labor better remunerated, some new hope for despairing hearts, some new light or new liberty for the benighted or the oppressed, bear witness this day, and trace itself, directly or indirectly, back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institutions on this American continent?

For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.

Women's orgasms will quadruple in intensity if she's in a beautiful, dimly lit room versus a brightly lit, uncomfortable room.

I've never been very good talking about myself.

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other.

the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of the medium, the distance of the object, and the disposition of the organ, in order to render them, within their sphere, the proper criteria of truth and falsehood.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?

Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.

My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we never got to the core of anything.

I have trouble listening to people tell me about their dreams.

I really like to talk to people and to get their take on things.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.

The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

...When we lift our voices tiny molehills of difference become great mountains of conflict.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.