communication
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘communication’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“But communication is two-sided – vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it… demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.” -Roger Sessions
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“Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.” -Lois Capps
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“Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“One thing I’ve learned to appreciate as I’ve gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.” -Billy Corgan
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“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.” -Benjamin Banneker
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“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.” -Marshall McLuhan
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“A degree of lying – you know, white lies – seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.” -Matthew Lesko
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“The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!” -Noam Chomsky
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“I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.” -Bill Gates
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“Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.” -Jim Rohn
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“Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.” -Walt Disney
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“Writing is a communication.” -Theodore Sturgeon
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“Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.” -Faith Baldwin
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“I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.” -Omar Bongo
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“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness.” -John Cheever
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“We don’t communicate in full sentences anyway. We don’t need all those words.” -Shepard Smith
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“In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.” -Erno Rubik
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“It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.” -Marya Mannes
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“Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.” -Frank Moore Colby
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“It’s like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There’s all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.” -William Wiley
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“Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.” -William Albert Allard
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“If listeners aren’t carried away to Heaven, I’m failing.” -La Monte Young
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“When you stop talking, you’ve lost your customer. When you turn your back, you’ve lost her.” -Estee Lauder
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“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.” -Virginia Satir
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“The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.” -Deborah Tannen
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“The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.” -Sydney J. Harris
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“I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.” -Jeanette Winterson
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“Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
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“Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.” -Pearl S. Buck
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“There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality then it is a quality of the spirit.” -Tom Wolfe
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“Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person’s mind.” -Rebecca West
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“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” -Hans Hofmann
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“Communication works for those who work at it.” -John Powell
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“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.” -Ruth St. Denis
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“To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.” -Marcel Marceau
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“It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.” -Peter Krause
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“Communication is everyone’s panacea for everything.” -Tom Peters
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“Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.” -Earl Wilson
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“Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.” -Carol Burnett
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“Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.” -Eugenio Montale
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“In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.” -William Bernbach
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“Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.” -Kenneth L. Pike
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“No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.” -Rollo May
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“A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.” -James Madison
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“Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.” -Marilyn vos Savant
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“The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.” -Mark Zuckerberg
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“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.” -Marcel Proust
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“Number one, cash is king… number two, communicate… number three, buy or bury the competition.” -Jack Welch
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“The desire to write grows with writing.” -Desiderius Erasmus
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“Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“But I’m acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today’s world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.” -Armistead Maupin
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“My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.” -Jada Pinkett Smith
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“He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other’s slave.” -Baltasar Gracian
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“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.” -H. G. Wells
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“Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.” -Bertolt Brecht
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“The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.” -Edward R. Murrow
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“There is only one rule for being a good talker – learn to listen.” -Christopher Morley
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“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” -J. B. Priestley
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“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.” -Charles Dickens
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“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” -Tony Robbins
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“By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.” -George Carlin
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“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” -Peter Drucker
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“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.” -Epictetus
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“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.” -Brian Tracy
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“Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.” -Ansel Adams
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“Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.” -Paulo Coelho
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“The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.” -Florence Scovel Shinn
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“Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success.” -Paul J. Meyer
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“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.” -T. S. Eliot
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“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.” -Mark Twain
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“Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.” -Lao Tzu
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