Quotes About Communication

The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.

In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.

We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media.

I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world.

Language is powerful. Words matter.

The most powerful force when changing people's hearts and minds is a person-to-person conversation.

Al is loyal, a loyal guy. He has treated me extremely well and he likes that I have been loyal to him as well. He runs things but he has treated me extremely well. I speak to Al Haymon whenever I want. He is a mysterious guy but he is the main man. He is the most powerful man in boxing.

TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

I want to make sure people know I don't think I have any magic powers. I just have a story that I share.

David Cameron has already said, and I have said, that a Conservative government would be giving the security agencies and law enforcement agencies the powers that they need to ensure that they are keeping up to date as people communicate with data.

I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.

If you think about the practical difficulties of having a relationship with somebody on the other side of the world, it defies all logic.

I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.

I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.

In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

Get practiced at taking deep breaths before you speak. This will give you the space to stop, notice what was about to come out of your mouth, and course correct if needed.