Quotes About Communication

Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.

I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.

What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.

All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Lies are essential to humanity.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.

She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.

Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet again.

In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.

The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.