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Quotes About Communication

Punishment is the root of violence on our planet.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.
~ Francis Chan
As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
~ Prince Philip
Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
~ Bernard Baruch
The first step of any communication is honest & consistent intentions, after this, even if you don't communicate, people will listen, hear & align
~ Unknown
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.
~ Susanna Kaysen
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
~ Edward R. Murrow
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
~ Rebecca West
There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.
~ Paul Dirac
The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.
~ Unknown
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.
~ Rumi
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
~ Willa Cather
One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual can use encryption, and that it's accessible and in many cases free.
~ Laura Poitras
At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.
~ Margaret Chase Smith
Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
~ Leo Rosten
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
~ Unknown
Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.
~ Paul Tournier
Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.
~ Romeo Dallaire