Quotes About Communication

Trying to say something is all you got in life.

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.

Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day.

Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.

Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

In real life, I'm such a dorky, happy person. I express myself in three ways: I talk a lot, I write songs and I get tattoos.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation.

Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.

It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told.

The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.

I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Don't text or twitter during the show. Just live your life. Don't keep telling people what you're doing. Just, because also - also - it lights up your big dumb face.

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.