Quotes About Communication

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

Nobody says anything to me now when it comes to Japanese. They actually ask me things. I now have power!

Your energy has far more power than you can even imagine. There is energy in your spoken words, in your emails, and in your physical presence.

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them.

I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you give to them, the more circulation they have.

Don't discount the power of your words. The thought that they might cause unnecessary hurt or discomfort should inform every conversation.

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.

On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.