Quotes About Communication

There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen.

Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are and how it is you use your power. Keep clear at all times that you are what you say you are.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That's the power of story.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

Where words leave off, music begins.

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.