Quotes About Communication

People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Any form of art is a form of power.

At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

the power of radio is not that it speaks to millions, but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.

Don't lose sight of the fact that hip and legs drive the horse forward and the hands merely channel this power by gentle rein aids.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they are treated as independent disciplines, it seems valid. Actually, the are derivatives of a single origin and in the skillful employment of words and images lies the expressive potential of the medium.

I speak Japanese the way a bear dances. It's not that the bear dances well that impresses people, it's the fact the bear dances at all.)

Four years of sitting in your room reading, and now you're out here with the common folk," I say. "What did inspire you to suddenly make the trip?" "I would have come sooner," she says, brushing her hair out of her face. "You just never invited me.

It is easier to bring up death when it's not in the same area code as you are, and it wasn't back then. It is probably worth noting that nobody has mentioned it to me in the last couple of years.

Take it from someone using the chair: people who do not use chairs do not like to talk about the chair. They are so worried about saying the wrong thing that they either don't say anything at all or, more likely . . . they say the wrong thing. But that's OK too! I like talking about the chair! I like it when people ask me how I'm feeling. I like it when people remember there's a person in here.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.

The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.