Quotes About Communication

Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know.

Music does communicate across language and racial and religious and philosophical barriers. It is one of the most distilled forms of human emotions.

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense.

People just want to dig; they want to dance. They don't want to work all through the night, and neither do I. I like getting 'out there,' but communication should be occurring on more levels than heavy-laden philosophical.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

A philosophy is important so that everyone is on the same page and there's a consistency of message.

If I don't impress you in an interview then fine, but at least give me that chance. That's all I want; to talk to a chairman or owner about my philosophy and what I can do for their team.

I'm always a big fan of if you approach somebody politely about something and you're not a nudge - you're just pretty honest and simple, my kind of philosophy is that I'm not afraid of 'no,' and that's way different than 'I won't take no for an answer.'

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.

I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.

Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell.

The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!

He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

I try to talk on the phone as little as possible.

I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.

My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.

The instruction manual for my Motorola phone is bigger and heavier than the phone.