Quotes About Communication

Just before words vanish they acquire a sickening pulpy smell, like clumps of dead grass whipped by the wind into dry little spheres, and they spill from the brain and the vocal cords, down through the blood vessels and nerves to the deepest, farthest corners of your body.

Y de nada serviría intentar analizar cómo lo había logrado. Desde el momento que pones algo así en palabras, lo pierdes. Las palabras y las combinaciones de palabras: cuanto más dependieras de ellas, menor era tu poder real.

Sería muy interesante que alguien investigara en qué medida los sistemas de comunicación de masas trabajan al servicios de la información y hasta qué punto al servicio del silencio. ¿Qué abunda más, lo que se dice o lo que se calla?

Cada una de las lenguas europeas es rica, solo que su riqueza no se manifiesta sino en la descripción de su propia cultura, en la representación de su propio mundo. Sin embargo, cuando se intenta entrar en territorio de otra cultura, y describirla, la lengua desvela sus límites, su subdesarrollo, su impotencia semántica.

A reporter is not only a megaphone into which dozens of figures, names and opinions are shouted. He'd also like to say something on his own occasionally. But what am I supposed to say?

Il giornalismo è una missione.

Le lingue europee sono ricche solo finché si tratta di descrivere la propria cultura, di rappresentare il proprio mondo: appena si addentrano nelle culture altrui e cercano di parlarne, rivelano subito i loro limiti, la loro povertà, la loro inadeguatezza semantica.

So what do you talk about?' I asked. One of them replied: 'This and that.' On this basis I could not deduce whether these conversations are interesting or boring, because I do not possess the Egyptological talent that can derive the stormy history of a dynasty from a single hieroglyph

The world contemplates the great spectacle of combat and death, which is difficult for it to imagine in the end, because the image of war is not communicable – not by the pen, or the voice, or the camera. War is a reality only to those stuck in its bloody, dreadful, filthy insides. To others it is pages in a book, pictures on a screen, nothing more.

Qual'è l'elemento principale dell'incontro? Il dialogo. Scopo del dialogo deve essere la reciproca comprensione e scopo della comprensione il reciproco avvicinamento. Comprensione e avvicinamento si raggiungono sulla via della conoscenza. Qual'è la conoscenza preliminare di questo processo, di quest'equazione? La volontà di conoscere, il rivolgersi all'altro, l'andargli incontro, l'attaccarci discorso.

El silencio así, en demasía, me parece un exceso gravoso, tanto como el griterío en balde.

People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood.

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.

He had thought that to pray was to talk; he learned that to pray is not only to keep silent, but to listen. And that is how it is: to pray is not to listen to oneself speak, but is to come to keep silent, and to continue keeping silent, to wait, until the person who prays hears God.

Precisely because a human being has the ability to speak, for this very reason the ability to keep silent is an art; and precisely because this advantage of his tempts him so easily, the ability to keep silent is a great art.

Silence is the snare of the demon, and the more one keeps silent, the more terrifying the demon becomes.

sessizliklerin en kesini susmak deÄŸil, konuÅŸmaktir.

I would rather be a swineherd at Amagerbro and be understood by the swine than be a poet and be misunderstood by people.

When a peculiar thinker, who just by his peculiarity is more tied up with the Eternal and less with time's moment, addresses his speech to men, he is rarely understood or listened to.

In order to help another effectively I must understand more than he – yet first of all surely I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him. If, however, I am disposed to plume myself on my greater understanding, it is because I am vain or proud, so that at bottom, instead of benefiting him, I want to be admired.

It may happen, however, that he falls into despair just for the fact that he has opened his heart to another; it may be that he thinks it would have been infinitely preferable to maintain silence rather than have anyone privy to his secret. There are examples of introverts who are brought to despair precisely because they have acquired a confidant.

On aina arveluttavaa leimata absurdiksi, käsittämättömäksi jokin, minkä joku toinen voi selittää helposti ymmärrettäväksi.

Freedom is always in communication (even taking the religious meaning of the word into consideration does no harm); unfreedom withdraws ever more in its reserve and will not communicate.