Quotes About Communication

We simply believe that we should lean into the world with something other than the pointed edge of a sword.

Technology is a double-edged sword for sure. You can use it to get in touch with somebody, to get to know somebody, to have really meaningful conversations, or you can use it to hurt and bully people.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

I grew up in the Great Depression, and the jazz artists and Dixieland musicians were at the core of our communications and enjoyment. They were not passing fancies. They are something that is, and will be, listened to again and again. I have a space of reverence for some of those old jazz stars such as Sydney Bechet and Louis Armstrong.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

Syllables govern the world.

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

What I don't like about Washington, if we say one syllable or one sentence, or this guy said something bad about me, then, all of a sudden, they have to be my mortal enemy. I don't think that's how it works in American business.

It's never clear to me why it's so hard for people to say sorry. It's a simple word, just two syllables and its positive impact is enormous.

My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship.

Music should never be a dictatorship. It should be a symbiotic relationship between the musician and the audience.

Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

When mobile phones came out, they were a status symbol. Now the status symbol is having someone to manage your mobile phone for you.

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

If you add up all the promises any politician makes, the math doesn't work. Hillary Clinton's math doesn't work; Donald's math probably doesn't work. I think you have to listen to their campaign pitches more as symbolic, more as metaphors.

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

Symbols are important. It depends on how they're used.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

Symbols have power and meaning and can mean different things to different people at different times and in different contexts.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.