Quotes About Communication

That had always been the power of media in the hands of a good leader. To get individuals to feel as if the leader was speaking directly to them, Churchill in 1940, Jack Kennedy in 1962, and Reagan in the 1980s.

You are no longer in the halls of the White House or wherever you served, whomever you were assigned to. This is not some public relations job where you bullshit a stupid press corps and when the questioning gets too tough, you say time is up.

If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words

How can you talk if you don't say anything? I said. You talk without words. We are always talking without words. Well, what good are words, then? Not very good, most of the time. Most of the time they're only good to keep back what you really want to say, or something you don't want known.

As for the matter of what we may expect from one another, that is indeed something we are eager to learn - all of us, all our lives, but I wonder, do we ever learn, do we ever really find out?

Tú hablas sin palabras. Todos estamos siempre hablando sin palabras. —¿Y para qué valen las palabras, entonces? —No valen para mucho, casi nunca. La mayor parte de las veces, únicamente para ocultar aquello que realmente quieres decir, o algo que quieres saber.

All I can say is that there is indeed a crisis here. We cannot speak to one another in a meaningful way, every one of us is a leader, a general of the army, a king, a president, the greatest thinker of all time, and so on and so forth. This is the curse of the Armenian race.

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

They do not love that do not show their love.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.

Words, words, words.

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

It is my lady. O, it is my love! O, that she knew she were! She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that? Her eye discourses; I will answer it. I am too bold. 'Tis not to me she speaks. Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars