Communication Struggle Quotes

I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'

Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.

It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting.

And so not only did I have all new friends and all new surroundings, I didn't even understand what they were talking about, which was very difficult and kind of started me, I think, on my path to animation. It was a lot easier to draw people than to talk and interact with them.

Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I couldn't get my words out. So the only way I could tell someone what I wanted was to scream. If I didn't want to wear a hat, the only way I knew to communicate was screaming and throwing it on the floor.

I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that did not do me a bit of good. For I've absorbed so many words and phrases— They drive me dizzy when I want to speak. I start explaining but each person gazes As if I spoke in Latin or in Greek.

I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.

I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong or sometimes completely backward. I try to go back and correct it, but things get even more complicated and confused, so that I don’t even remember what I started to say in the first place. Like I was split into two or something, one half chasing the other. And there’s this big pillar in the middle and they go chasing each other around and around it. The other me always latches onto the right word and this me absolutely never catches up

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

I think everyone is struggling somewhat with presentation. The Internet is generally well designed, if you look at the most popular websites, so we expect our visuals to be at that level of quality. When you sit in a presentation and you're looking at nonsensical pie charts and the like, your audience does disengage. People across a range of industries, not just science, are struggling with their communication because their output doesn't compete with what people see on a day-to-day basis.

It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you.

You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.

It hurts me not to be able to communicate like I used to. I used to be pretty good at coming back, you know, quick one-liners.

Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy.

I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry

Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card.

I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person.

I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.