Quotes About Communication

Words are symbols representing things and ideas known to us; and these symbols do not and cannot convey the true nature of even ordinary things. Language is considered deceptive and misleading in the matter of understanding of the Truth.

Words are symbols representing things and ideas known to us; and these symbols do not and cannot convey the true nature of even ordinary things.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

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.

The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport

In this dark, when we all talk at once, some of us must learn to whistle.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.

Those things most listened for, certainly those are the things least said.

Words! book-words! what are you?

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Confrontation is one of the highest expressions of love. When done in love and compassion, confrontation is one the kindest things you can do for another person. A refusal to confront when needed, is one of the most selfish things you can do.

If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug — which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.

If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

If you've told a child a thousand times and he still doesn't understand, then it is not the child who is a slow learner.

But in early time, when writing is difficult, reading rare, and representation undiscovered, those who are to be guided by the discussion must hear it with their own ears, must be brought face to face with the orator, and must feel his influence for themselves.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Translation is so far removed from being the sterile equation of two dead languages that of all literary forms it is the one charged with the special mission of watching over the maturing process of the original language and the birth pangs of its own.

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

The key insight is that honest talk transforms and emancipates when it is received in faithful seriousness.

Humanness depends on being faithfully heard. And being faithfully heard depends on risky speech of self-disclosure uttered in freedom before a faithful listener.