Implicit Messages Quotes

Everything we say has metamessages indicating how our words are to be interpreted: Is this a serious statement or a joke? Does it show annoyance or goodwill? Most of the time, metamessages are communicated and interpreted without notice because, as far as anyone can tell, the speaker and the hearer agree on their meaning.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly supportive of experimentation with drugs, nobody ever said anything to them.

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.

I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back at my books, I can say, 'Oh, yes, it is there.' But it's not in my mind when I write.

The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.

I never try and send messages through my feature films; it's always naturally woven in and comes through on its own, as that's the way I think about society.

I come from a part of Nigeria where a lot of value is placed on implicit communication. The 'well brought up' child is the one who can pick up nonverbal cues from adults and interpret them correctly.

Writers of color are given certain messages - explicit or implicit - about what they're allowed to write about or what will be successful if they write about it. And white writers are given another set of implicit and, sometimes, explicit messages.

In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

I love thinking about things subtextually and I actually - like for instance when I write, I actually, I'm not very analytical about it. I don't ever deal with the subtext because I just know it's there so I don't have to deal with it. I just keep it about the scenario. I keep it on the surface, on my concerns. And one of the fun things is is when I'm done with everything, like now, for instance.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.

Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.