Quotes About Communication

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

Are you going away with no word of farewell? Will there be not a trace left behind? Well I could have loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind. You know that was the last thing on my mind.

Hate the way if people have a problem they type it into their computers, and scream it out to the world and wait for the world to give them stupid, dangerous advice.

That whole cellular idea is idiotic. Who wants to carry around a phone all the time? I don't want people calling me wherever I am.

Tess, ti amo. Apri gli occhi" "Cosa?" "Apri gli occhi" "No. L'altra cosa" "Ti amo" "Davvero?" "Già" "Come lo sai?" "Non lo so. È così e basta" "Anch'io" "Davvero?" "Davvero" Aprii gli occhi e non guardai giù ma dritto verso Jimmy Freeze

Richard wanted to write a letter to Ted Bundy, on Florida's death row, and he asked Doreen to get Bundy's prison number and address. He had, he said, some things he wanted to ask Ted about.

Haven't I been a good father?" he asked Joseph. "I always

Listening: You can convey no greater honor than actually hearing what someone has to say.

People not used to the world … are unskillful enough to show what they have sense enough not to tell.

There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest

If forecasters can keep questioning themselves and their teammates, and welcome vigorous debate, the group can become more than the sum of its parts.

People take things differently. What one person would consider a helpful inquiry another might take as an aggressive criticism.

Everybody has said, 'I want push-back from you if you see something I don't,' " said Rosenthal. That made a difference. So did offering thanks for constructive criticism.

How skillfully leaders perform this balancing act determines how successfully their organizations can cultivate superteams that can replicate the balancing act down the chain of command. And this is not something that one isolated leader can do on his own. It requires a wider willingness to hear unwelcome words from others—and the creation of a culture in which people feel comfortable speaking such words.

people realized that excessive politeness was hindering the critical examination of views, so they made special efforts to assure others that criticism was welcome. "Everybody has said, 'I want push-back from you if you see something I don't,' " said Rosenthal. That made a difference. So did offering thanks for constructive criticism. Gradually, the dancing around diminished.

In his famous essay "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell concluded with six emphatic rules, including "never use a long word where a short one will do" and "never use the passive where you can use the active." But the sixth rule was the key: "Break any of these rules sooner than saying anything outright barbarous.

The avoidance of reality has pervaded our language and even the way we understand what's happening around us, as the late comedian George Carlin pointed out. People have invented a 'soft language' to insulate themselves from the truth, he said, 'toilet paper became bathroom tissue … The [garbage] dump became a landfill … Partly cloudy became partly sunny.

These days, it literally is all about 'me'. In an analysis of over 750,000 books published between 1960 and 2008, Jean Twenge and her colleagues found that the use of first person plural pronouns (i.e. We, Us) decreased 10 per cent, while during this same timeframe, the use of first person singular pronouns (i.e. I, Me) increased 42 per cent, and second person pronouns (i.e. You, Your) quadrupled.

Simple changes in tone and volume can cause temporal illusions that lead people to believe that more time has passed than really has.

our use of electronic media—use of televisions, radios, computers, phones, iPods and MP3s, videos, and game players—now accounts for an average of slightly under eight hours (470 minutes) in an average American's typical twelve-and-a-half-hour day. Over

The people are living seperately together," he said. "So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry. We all come running, and the one that stays quiet, the one that stays home, must explain. Is he in league with the criminals? Is he a coward? And what would he expect when he cries? This is simple. This is normal. This is community.

Odette nodded at my notebook, where I was writing as she spoke. 'Do the people in America really want to read this? People tell me to write these things down, but it's written inside of me. I almost hope for the day when I can forget.

Art has tremendous power to shape culture and touch the human heart. Its artifacts embody the ideas and desires of the coming generation. This means that what is happening in the arts today is prophetic of what will happen in our culture tomorrow. It also means that when Christians abandon the artistic community, we lose a significant opportunity to coniniu- nicate Christ to our culture.

Art is always tempted to glory in itself, and nearly every form of art has been used to communicate values that are contrary to Scripture. Art is as fallen as any other aspect of human existence. This fallenness perverts the arts against fulfilling their original purpose and prevents us from embracing them uncritically.