Quotes About Communication

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

Lumea este sus?inut? de rostirea cuvintelor.

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

The totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community is the language of that speech community.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door.

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.

GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for I know silence) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me

Svaki ?ovek govori jezikom svoga oca.

It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder. — Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game . (Vintage; Reprint edition October 14, 2003) Originally published January 1st 1963.

We spoke so that we could become tender. It was not the kind of tenderness which follows passion, but the kind which follows failure.

And everything depends upon how close you lie to me

leadership is the medium through which one expresses one's deepest values.

The technology which, in our culture, has released urban and even rural man from the quiet before his hearth log has debauched his taste. Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside.

If you're not attempting to get someone to see, feel, think, or act in a particular manner, why bother communicating at all?

Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.

I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species.

The difficulty in making sense of even simple speech is well appreciated by computer scientists who struggle to create machines that can respond to natural language. Their frustration is illustrated by a possibly apocryphal story of the early computer that was given the task of translating the homily "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." into Russian and then back to English. According to the story, it came out: "The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten.

the "API call" metaphor inevitably exposes the server's implementation details to the clients. This introduces coupling between server code and client code.

We spend so much time urging children to trust us to help them with their problems. Yet we don't even have the courage to let them read books in which those problems are named for what they are, or to let them freely talk about those problems. So the question I have is this: Why should children trust us? That's the part that I think the censors have not thought through carefully.