Quotes About Communication

like isolated apartment dwellers running the TV for company, we sense a deeper isolation beneath the babble of voices, the poverty of our communications.

Now and then I'd catch my mother looking at my like she was thinking about her life, like she was about to say something, but she never did. I didn't expect it. Sometimes it's better not to go back--just settle accounts as they are, call it even.

Yet Yogi Bhajan describes mastery of this practice as arising from teaching it: "If you want to learn something," he says, "read it. If you want to know something, write it. If you want to MASTER something, Teach it!" (Bhajan).

This is the last time you'll read the phrase "his or her" or "he or she"; from this point on, I'll use one or the other pronoun and assume you understand that any sex could apply.

Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

The problem for some people is when [motivational] speakers put out a consistently positive message it can be off-putting, and they start to feel like the speakers aren't relatable anymore.

praying was where you talk to God. And meditation was where you listen.

Right there—listening and complimenting—you're ahead of eighty percent of every guy on the face of the earth.

You'll hear from me, I promise. I'll call for you as soon as I can.

He said praying was where you talk to God. And meditation was where you listen.

Just dance, and smile, and let your body speak the language of love.

Zines are not a new idea. They have been around under different names (ChapBooks, Pamphlets, Flyers). People with independent ideas have been getting their word out since there were printing presses.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter - it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning.

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you're interrupting.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

When a German dives into a sentence, you won't see him again until he emerges at the other end with the verb between his teeth.

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.