Quotes About Communication

All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.

Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.

The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.

Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.

We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.

The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

One of the great things about running with Ajamu Baraka is that we speak to all of America.

One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.