Quotes About Communication

He knew how much pride his people took him being forever misunderstood.

I wouldn't serve a God who wouldn't speak to me. George Foreman

Perhaps Ali's most significant talent with the ability to transport people past thoughts and words to a world of feeling and play.

I wanted silence in the flowers, not to not say, but to not have the impulse of saying.]

In one instance a woman was lying in my arms after hours of sex, and we were watching the sun come up, and I said, "Do you know what Plato says about forms?" She answered, "No. But I know what to say about your form." Pushing her away to block a kiss, I said, "No, really. What do you think about the idea that there are timeless blueprints for things?" She twisted her mouth in disgust. "You're weird," she said.

The most significant gift our species brings to the world is our capacity to think. The most significant danger our species brings to the world is our inability to think with those who think differently.

we must learn how to think collaboratively and innovatively.

We can't settle for pieces from a man. We can't trade our happiness and self-respect for the opportunity to be held, cuddled and given tenderness. we can't give ourselves away for the words we want to hear if there's no action behind them. We deserve a healthy man who can make us happy. We can't stop remembering: "All men are jerks until proven otherwise." Until he proves otherwise, we can't get too caught up in his "goodies".

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.

Not all the arts of diplomacy are learned solely in its practice. There are other exercise yards.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

He was succeeding admirably in communicating his own boredom to his audience.

It is commonplace to talk as if the world "has" meaning, to ask what "is" the meaning of a phrase, a gesture, a painting, a contract. Yet when thought about, it is clear that events are devoid of meaning until someone assigns it to them.

I am Become Text Message. Destroyer Of Words.

The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with simplistic truths

Don't Let The Medium Massage The Message

The mother tongue of politicians is that of ancient Babylon: a language designed to severely limit discourse within a tower of praise to elitism, a language carried on breath's reeking of the fecal matter from their paymasters

God created reality using language. The Devil is destroying reality by perverting language

Reality is symbolic. We build it using only the 26 symbols of the alphabet alongside images that speak to us on a linguistic level built from the 26 symbols of the alphabet.

That was the trouble with explaining with words. If you explained with gunpowder, people listened.

Never, under any circumstances, argue with a tired woman. She is always right.

We become the way we speak.