Quotes About Communication

I learned long ago that a good-looking man in the right suit with a winning smile can get what he wants. All it takes is the ability to tell a story.

If I had rescued a child from drowning, the national press would no doubt have headlined the story "Benn grabs child."

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

To win power, we need self-discipline not self-indulgence; listening to what people are truly saying, not hearing only the parts we want to hear.

Well, America is never a laughingstock because it's too powerful for that. But people do want clarity and consistency.

The style is not the answer. Each method has a message.

True negotiation takes place when each side respects the other, and their point of view, and enters into the discussion positively. If you are determined that your solution, and your particular solution only, is the correct one – to be imposed on the other side if necessary – that is not negotiation; it is dictatorship

The pen is mightier than the sword" only if the brain behind it knows how to wield the word!' Tony Buzan

The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

Teams have to really get to know each other, work through many issues, overcome various obstacles, and establish winning strategies in order to experience this caliber of cohesion.

I'm sorry that I hurt you." "You didn't hurt me." There was a long pause on the phone. Then she said,"You are going to hurt from this longer than I ever will. It's true that I didn't know what kind of Indian you were. But what hurts me most is to know what kind of man.

Simply defined, prayer is earthly permission for heavenly interference.

Our wives are like mirrors, reflecting back to us what kinds of husbands we are.

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose! All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you see 's been dubbed by [Us] into RP, Received Pronunciation, please believe [Us] your speech is in the hands of the Receivers.

Back in our silences and sullen looks, for all the Scotch we drink, what's still between us not the thirty or so years, but books, books, books.

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting

How do you manage for money?' I asked. I was given two simultaneous replies of 'We get by' from Ian and 'Don't ask' from Neil. I favoured Ian's reply because it had less-sinister connotations. 'Don't ask' left open the possibility that they raised funds by selling hitch-hikers into slavery. I changed the subject.

Stella explained that when he had arrived, because of his English accent, she had assumed that he was me, and had asked where his fridge was. She didn't tell me what his reply was, and we can only hazard a guess, but I was impressed that he had been prepared to stay the night. It is surely a brave man who goes ahead and checks into an establishment where the first question is 'Where's your fridge?'. Especially if, as he had done, you had arrived by motorcycle.

sounding cheerful, Ms. Manuelito sounding sad.

I'm getting to be like a white man," she said. "I'm getting in a hurry for you to tell me what this is all about.

Maxine, back from a weekend with her boyfriend, smiles like a big cat and says that she's a conjugated verb. She's been doing the direct object with a second person pronoun named Phil