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Quotes About Communication

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.
~ Charles Handy
If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.
~ Seymour Chwast
People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
~ Nina Simone
Misunderstandi ngs happen because we do not understand that different people have different styles of communication.
~ Tony Alessandra
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.
~ James Madison
We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.
~ Mira Sorvino
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
~ James Thurber
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
~ Alvin Adams
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
~ Robert Burchfield
Real communication is impossible without listening.
~ Ralph C. Smedley
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
~ Henri Bergson
The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.
~ Thomas Berry
Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.
~ Viola Spolin
All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.
~ Isocrates
Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication
~ Mike Krzyzewski
Integrated marketing communications is a way of looking at the whole marketing process from the view point of the customer.
~ Philip Kotler
Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.
~ Joseph Stowell
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
~ Joseph Priestley
It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
~ Edward Hopper
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
~ Horace
I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.
~ Roger Deakins
I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.
~ Henry David Thoreau