George Carlin Quotes

I hate phone calls, so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.' If you find yourself in the middle of something, getting an unprompted annoyance is incredibly frustrating.

Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations.

You have a problem with allowing someone to finish speaking.

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, "Can I ask you a quick question?" It's always, "a quick question." Well, my answers are slow.

Drama was always clogging up the phone line. It's like that's what people call me for.

The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

What about e-mail? It is e-mail, yes?" Morley asked, leaning even closer. "E-mail is a kind of electronic letter. It travels through the air." He seemed very smug that he knew that. "Well, not exactly, and would you please either BACK OFF or go find a shower?

Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.

O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.

There is so much to be learned from listening to people's hopes, frustrations, and points of view

I do. You know, I made a mistake using a private e- mail.

"You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen - not just money, but respect.

Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate to a crisis level. We must examine our struggles with forgiveness in which there are not overt offenses or blatant betrayals. I'm convinced that seeds of resentment take root in the silent frustrations that never get discussed. Other people cannot read our minds--or our palms!--and that is why we have tongues to speak.

I really don't like conference calls to be honest. It's always something that bloody happens with a conference call - universally never works out.

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Nobody ever cares what I say! I feel badly about it, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

I think communication is so firsbern.

You pick up the phone and you talk to somebody. There's a voice on the other end and you say what you have to say. This is how I perceive my life. I don't see myself as "Oh, I'm doing this great thing because I'm going to give this talk, now everybody's going to be transformed."