Quotes About Communication

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.

As Regis Mckenna once said, the best marketing is education

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."

I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.

My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people... that touch people emotionally.

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

Talking to people is the most educational thing I know.

If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society.

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.

I love social media. I love the connectivity it provides, the creativity it allows, and the breathtaking wealth of information we all have at our fingertips because of it.

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre.

Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.