Quotes About Communication

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.

Appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, most relationships do not end suddenly. This is true of friends, romantic partners, and business associates alike. When someone claims to be blindsided, it's usually because they had their eyes closed.

Tell her how much she means to you. Tell her you were with someone else before you met her—that's very important—and unfortunately you contracted something. Be polite and discreet and very apologetic. Remember, she likes you. She doesn't know you're a whore.

KEY CONCEPT Superlative Praise = vague, exaggerated, and ineffective Wow, your homework is fantastic! Descriptive Praise = specific, true, and motivating You answered all the questions on this worksheet, even though you weren't sure about some of the answers. You didn't leave any blanks. You challenged yourself and wrote down something for every single question.

Indeed, sometimes, if he was sufficiently shitfaced, Edward would even refer to me as Daddy.

I knew that if the subject were to arise, I would once again speak words that would cut my friend, little ceremonial slashes to his soul, not to cause a mortal wound, just to draw blood and to relieve myself of a nameless burden.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

She didn't apologize. She never did, except when apologies were totally unnecessary, so that people would deny them profusely.

When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.

And what people see the most is his silence, because some kinds of silence is actually visible.

Some people, like teachers and librarians and other adults, like to say that names are not important. Like sticks and stones. But they are wrong. Every word you choose means something you think it means, and more.

Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.

Hello there. I have been trying to lose my virginity and I picked you to do it with. Wondering what you're doing later on this afternoon?

When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you'd be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)

I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

Simple people always reduce everything to their own simple measure.

Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech.

It was the woman's job to be on the defensive, because past experience had taught her to be. It was the guy's job to be on the offensive, because he had no choice. It was that or never meet at all.

When were in the prence of another person, there Is always a masks, even if that mask is our face. There is no escaping it. And so the vast majority of what we say to each other, whether it is to our spouses, our family, our confessor, or perfect strangers, amounts to chitchat all the same. Or at best, a crack audition for that juiciest of all parts were literally dying to play: ourselves.. But alone. Fuckin A- ALONE were genius.

Os vivos comunicam-se mutuamente numa linguagem que, em grande medida, foi moldada pelos mortos. Assim, os mortos se vingam dos vivos por violarem seus valores.

We have decided to call the entire field of control and communication theory, whether in the machine or in the animal, by the name of Cybernetics, which we form from the Greek [for] steersman.