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Quotes About Communication

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
~ Earl Warren
People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action.
~ Moshé Feldenkrais
The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
~ Claude Shannon
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
~ Martha Graham
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
~ Rollo May
The only healthy communication style is assertive communication.
~ Jim Rohn
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
~ Sydney J. Harris
We are stronger when we listen,and smarter when we share.
~ Queen Rania of Jordan
Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.
~ Niklas Luhmann
It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling
~ Frederick Leboyer
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
~ Samuel Johnson
Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.
~ John Rosemond
It is all about the quality of the communication, not the quantity.
~ Buck Brannaman
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well
~ John Marshall
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.
~ Robert Venturi
Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.
~ Guy Kawasaki
Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.
~ Joseph Badaracco
What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.
~ Miuccia Prada
The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.
~ Shepard Fairey
Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.
~ Jean Tinguely
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.
~ Jean Dubuffet
Lock all communication. If there's no light within my day. I'd rather stay in isolation. For that special someone a lifetime I'll wait.
~ Buju Banton
Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
~ Jeff Daly