Quotes About Communication

Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.

The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.

Think of Instagram. Journalism will continue to exist, but communication is now visual.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.

Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear their analysis.

Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves.

News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them 'common' to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means 'common.')

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

Health is a state of perfect subatomic communication and ill health is a state when communication breaks down. We become ill when our waves are out of sync.

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.

Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.

The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.