Quotes About Communication

Revelation is a "meeting" between God and the believer whereby God speaks and we hear. The "spoken word" is a metaphor containing two elements: personal encounter and the impartation of knowledge.

Decentralized control is based on trust. This trust must be present both hierarchically and laterally. Subordinates must trust their superiors, and superiors must trust their subordinates.

In newspapers and magazines I read about what's happening. Apparently Facebook exists to extinguish friendship. E-mail and texting destroy the post office. eBay replaces garage sales. Amazon eviscerates bookstores. Technology speeds, then doubles its speed, then doubles it again. Art takes naps.

What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

If you withhold love as a form of punishment, who is being punished?

Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.

Talk without effort is nothing.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

I play video games and watch TV, but there's more to life than that. Faxing and the Internet have created a global community. The kid next door has become the kid in Latin America or Asia.

We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the life we wish to lead.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

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

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

i never learned anything while i was talking.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Ultimately a life message shouts more clearly and loudly than a brand message. Your image may communicate an outward brand, but your life shouts the real inner message.