“When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.”— Octavio Paz Related Quotes “… she had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she seemed, indeed, to wish to hear spoken, but, from prudence, would let her friend be the first to speak.”— Marcel Proust “For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not important that those who ask the questions arrive at my answers or Marshall McLuhan’s (quite different answers, by the way). This is an instance in which the asking of the questions is sufficient. To ask is to break the spell.”— Neil Postman “One of great arts of communication is the skill of listening to people”— Sunday Adelaja