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Quotes About Communication

Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.
~ Alfred Korzybski
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
~ Anais Nin
There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.
~ Tom Peters
The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
~ Voltaire
Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
~ Edvard Munch
My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.
~ Kid Koala
I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance
~ Jon Stewart
I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
~ Aaron Carter
The innocent is the person who explains nothing
~ Albert Camus
I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
~ John Cusack
Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.
~ Oswald Chambers
The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can't learn because they're too busy telling everyone what they know.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.
~ Sebastiao Salgado
When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
~ Steven Spielberg
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Are you smiling when you talk? Try it today, and I guarantee you will notice a difference in your life.
~ Andy Andrews
You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.
~ Warren Buffett
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
~ Bernard Meltzer
Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
~ Jodie Foster
Words have a longer life than deeds.
~ Pindar
There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.
~ Carl Van Vechten
All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier
~ Kate Burridge
They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing cause that's a way of understanding life.
~ Ma Rainey
A good sketch is better than a long speech.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte