Quotes About Communication

By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

The hard part about SNL is, there's no real communication when you get there. It's not like people are mean to you, they just act like you're not there.

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a responsibility, it's our chief pleasure.

Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

It's ironic, but true, that in this age of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever.

In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.

A barrier to communication is something that keeps meanings from meeting.

There should be no "means of communication" which "we cannot read".

Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their needs met also.