Quotes About Connection

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves.

To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them 'common' to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means 'common.')

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.

One who cares is one who listens.

Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

The first step of any communication is honest & consistent intentions, after this, even if you don't communicate, people will listen, hear & align

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away.

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?