Quotes About Communication

It is possible to have a complex human relationship without words

Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.

Social media technology creates a culture in which people turn into little brand managers, using Facebook, twitter, text messages to create a falsely upbeat, slightly overexuberant, external self that can be famous first in a small sphere and then, with luck, in a large one.

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.

What you really want is to be able to pick up a book and understand what the author is saying in the least amount of time.

I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

There's a biological basis for music, and that biological basis is the similarity between music and speech," said Purves. "That's the reason we like music. Music is far more complex than [the ratios of] Pythagoras. The reason doesn't have to do with mathematics, it has to do with biology.

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.

Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.

Song references are like emotional shortcuts and social acronyms.

music, I would argue, is a part of what makes us human.

With the advent of recorded music in 1878, the nature of the places in which music was heard changed.

The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.

no one has ever gone to war over music.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.

The best way to avoid these tactics from being used by you or against you is by befriending the other party before the negotiations start. Good relationships and rapport in a neutral environment may prove productive later at the negotiating table. Overall,

Everyone is told just as much as he needs to know, including the self.

Don't mistake legibility for communication

Never mistake legibility for communication.

The efficiency of information exchanges reflects, above all, the nature and regularity of contacts and exchanges between different communities.

If you want to change yourself long term, you have to change the way you think and change the way you perceive the world. You have to come up with a new set of eyes to view yourself with. You need a new way of communicating internally with yourself and you need to ask yourself different questions.

He said all I could do was tell them, so that is what I did, I told them all the long the short and the tall