Quotes About Communication

We live in a culture now where impact is more important than intent; where how things are taken is more significant than how they are meant.

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We live in a culture now where impact is more important than intent; where how things are taken is more significant than how they are meant. You have to listen to the people being talked about rather than the talker – and the power, throughout history, has tended to be with the talker, the person with the platform, rather than the talked-about, who are usually the ones affected.

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Listening is an underrated asset. People these days, they don't listen as much as they should. I read a lot, I travel a lot and I'm always listening.

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

you ask too many questions," snapped Cletus. I kept my gaze on Roman. "that's because I get too few answers.

Bernays said that the more intelligent members of the community can direct the population through "the engineering of consent," which he considered "the very essence of the democratic process.

And while a hundred civilizations have prospered (sometimes for centuries) without computers or windmills or even the wheel, none have survived even a few generations without art.

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

To expand our minds and to become more fully civilized members of the human race, we should learn as many different languages as we can. The diversity of tongues is a treasure and a resource for thinking new thoughts.

It is translation, more than speech itself, which provides incontrovertible evidence of the human capacity to think and to communicate thought. We should do more of it.

I express not the word for the word but the sense for the sense.

Translation is another name for the human condition.

But a world in which all intercultural communication was carried out in a single idiom would not diminish the variety of human tongues. It would just make native speakers of the international medium less sophisticated users of language than all others, since they alone would have only one language to think with.

Translation is the opposite of empire

Would we have ever asked what it is that a translator 'carries across' the 'language barrier' if he or she were called a 'turner', 'tongue-man', or 'exchanger'? Probably not.

A desire to believe (despite all evidence to the contrary) that words are at bottom the names of things is what makes the translator's mission seem so impossible.

The real story is the other way around. Without translators, Western dictionaries would not exist.

The natural way to represent the foreignness of foreign utterances is to leave them in the original, in whole or in part.

In many circumstances, formal education replaces the infant language with one that goes on to be used in adult life as the operative means of communication.