Quotes About Communication

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

He who hides his madman dies voiceless.

Seul, Être à soi-même son pain, Et encore, il s'engrange qu'il dit, Et pète par toutes les fissures. En blocs, en lames, en jets et en cristal, Mais derrière le mur de ses paroles, C'est un grand sourd.

I begin to write, almost without realizing it, without thinking, busy transmitting these words I don't recognize, although they are highly significant: "Too much! Too much! You're giving me too much!

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue.

The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

When you listen for the words of God and follow them, you will hear more. When you do not listen or do not follow, you will hear less and less until finally you may not hear at all.

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.

After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

Love dies not nor can lovers die; And though vast worlds between them lie, Th' intelligencing current thrills From each to each the thought love wills.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.