Quotes About Perception

Don't confuse legibility with communication.

We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

Misunderstandi ngs happen because we do not understand that different people have different styles of communication.

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.

Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

People don't make us angry, how we think makes us angry.

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

The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.

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

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.

Always listen to what people need rather than what they are thinking about us.