Quotes About Communication

For if there is a single dominant lesson from 1918, it's that governments need to tell the truth in a crisis. Risk communication implies managing the truth. You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth.

Those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart.

The disease soon became known as "Spanish influenza" or "Spanish flu," very likely because only Spanish newspapers were publishing accounts of the spread of the disease that were picked up in other countries.

execute, is that those who occupy positions of authority must lessen the panic that can alienate all within a society.

positions of authority must lessen the panic that can alienate all within a society.

problems presented by a pandemic are, obviously, immense. But the biggest problem lies in the relationship between governments and the truth. • • • Part of that relationship requires political leaders to understand the truth—and to be able to handle the truth. If there's a lesson from the 2009 pandemic, it's that too many governments were incapable of doing so.

risk communication." I don't much care for the term. For if there is a single dominant lesson from 1918, it's that governments need to tell the truth in a crisis. Risk communication implies managing the truth. You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth.

Risk communication implies managing the truth. You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth.

There was no trust, no trust, and without trust all human relations were breaking down.

Our words have no inherent meaning to a corvid; they are arbitrary, but the natural communication system of these birds also involves arbitrary symbols (calls) that refer to specific objects and actions in their world.

The acute attention that ravens pay to our subtle signals underscores the degree to which they can draw conclusions from our body language. They perceive our intentions even though we may not be consciously aware of them.

Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, or WELL, a computer conferencing system that Brand launched in 1985.

One night in bed Jennings complained that Brand's monologues were growing harsh and boring. She asked him to please "gentle up.

If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

LISTEN twice as much as you speak.

To become a collaborative team player . . . •Think win-win-win. King Solomon of ancient Israel observed, "Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another."3 Usually when you collaborate with others, you win, they win, and the team wins. Find someone on the team with a similar role whom you have previously seen as a competitor. Figure out ways you can share information and work together to benefit both you and the team.

An uneven distribution of information hinders negotiations and limits what can be contracted. Information transmission requires devices that ensure the communications are reliable. Another such issue is that a market works well only if people can trust each other. Trust requires mechanisms to bolster it since, regrettably, not everyone is inherently trustworthy.

Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one from more than a million in the language. Now keep going. What is your next word?

The authors of literary works may not have intended all the subtleties, complexities, undertones, and overtones that are attributed to them by critics and by students writing doctoral theses. That's what God says about geologists, I told him...

From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.