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Quotes About Communication

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
~ Asger Jorn
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
~ Abraham Maslow
Never question the beauty of what you are saying because someone reacts with pain, judgment, criticism. It just means they have not heard you.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world
~ Laurence J. Peter
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
~ Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
You cannot be president of the United States if people below $50,000 don't think you care about them and you have no real communication that motivates them to vote for you.
~ Jeff Sessions
Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down!
~ Garrison Wynn
Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff.
~ Robert Townsend
When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Carve every word before you let it fall.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
Classifying and judging people promotes violence.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Always hear the 'Yes' in the 'No'.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Empathy before education.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself!
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
It's not all about content. It's all about stories. It's not all about stories. It's all about great stories.
~ Mitch Joel
Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.
~ Kenneth Goldsmith
A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.
~ Barry Neil Kaufman
Conscious communication is called Turiya-when you are totally effective, totally understood and totally truthful.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.
~ Unknown
Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.
~ Unknown