Quotes About Communication

There cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, loyalty, love, patience, persistence.

What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

Sometimes I want to suck on a beautiful word. To lick it clean.

Inflate the sentence. Try to make it burst.

But couldn't he burn the twaddle instead of straining it. The story of the man who uses a Bunsen burner to singe from his lips the words with which a story might otherwise have been told.

O I'm babbling.

Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

There is a particular tone of voice that strikes fear and terror into the hearts of parents everywhere

Mr. Dragonbreath, who had been happily married to Danny's mother for a number of years, carefully poured her another cup of coffee. He did not say anything more about the most important meal of the day.

The guardian flipped it over. "It's one of ours, yes . . . hmm. Says it's addressed to Eudaimonia—

People ought to be a lot quicker to listen to each other and a little slower to listen to something that calls itself a god.

When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.

She thinks that I'm full of it, always pissed, man I'm tired, every kiss, that I miss, girl you know I'm trying, you never believe when I say, I never believe when you say, I love you

Sometimes when you are hearing what you do not want to be hearing then everything in your body stops to working and all you can be doing is looking because unless you are blind then your eye never stop looking. That is how I am looking because my mouth is not working enough for me to speak and even my leg are hardly working for me to move.

You have a much shorter period of time in which to make an impression upon your prospects so you must be completely focused with your message-V J SMITH, Author, RADIO AD COPYWRITING BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK

The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays of light in a realm of darkness. . . . They can equally be lethal arrows. Worst of all, at times they can be one or the other. They can even be both at once!

Truth lies not only in what is said, but also in who says it, to whom, why, how and under what circumstances.

How does language interact with thought? Does language enable us to think, or does thinking enable us to talk?

How does language interact with thought? Does language enable us to think, or does thinking enable us to talk? Can we think in a sophisticated manner without silent internal speech? And lastly, how did this extraordinarily complex, multicomponent system originally come into existence in our hominin ancestors?

Isn't simplification sometimes impoverishment? How to convey the richness of the message with a poverty of symbols. If we oversimplify the form, don't we kill the content?