Quotes About Communication

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

Expressing our vulnerability can help resolve conflicts.

Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.

I never have to worry about another person's response, only how I react to what they say.

When I am angry I have a judgment and an unmet need.

There is a universal urge for intimacy, for trading subjectivities, in communication. For Telepathy. Our desire for it tells us about what we wish to be: truly intersubjective beings.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.

What worries me is that now, communication is virtual.

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.

Public Relations is the management of communication between an organization and its publics.

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.

Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

When we listen for their feelings and needs, we no longer see people as monsters.

People heal from their pain when they have an authentic connection with another human being.

It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.