Communication Quotes - Page 6

Tell me what happens next, after my body has frozen. When I can't communicate. What will I be?

Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end.

Haruki Murakami

Lyndon Johnson’s sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words but evocative, of a man with a remarkable gift for images, homey images of a vividness that infused the sentences with drama.

Robert A. Caro

So much of what we read and write these days is disposable.

John Kasich

Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me,” he would say. “Johnson didn’t enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn’t think they had a sense of humor.

Hubert H. Humphrey

If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.

David Halberstam

(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story),

David Halberstam

Always speak first to the toughest person in the room.

Jess Walter

Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you.

Rick Perlstein

Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.

David Halberstam

Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don't know why we are doing what we are doing.

Michael White

If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they're not going to like you. They don't want to think. They want to be right, unrivaled or entertained.

Donna Lynn Hope

Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.

Bill Bryson

It's far more important why is being said, than what.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

Bridge miscommunications by talking to parents, hearing their stories, and learning how they’ve shaped yours.

Jason L. Ma

Think about it: send SLASH receive. Email is the frenzied killer of proper communication.

Fennel Hudson

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

Dean Koontz

That one,” Ferox said, pointing at Johann with a claw. “I can see he’s communicated like that before and I think I can speak to his mind. Let me see.”“After a moment, Johann broke from the line and approached the dragon.“You did ask me to come closer, didn’t you?” he asked.“Yes, I can speak to this one. He can be my rider.

Tom Larcombe

I was always amazed at Cambridge how quickly people appeared to take offence at everything I said, but now I see plainly that it was not my words they hated - it was this fairy face. The dark alchemy of this face turns all my gentle human emotions into fierce fairy vices. Inside I am all despair, but this face shows only fairy scorn. My remorse becomes fairy fury and my pensiveness is turned to fairy cunning.

Susanna Clarke

All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people. The more

Nicholas Boothman

Pausing gives us the opportunity to arrive at an internal place from which we can choose wisely what needs to be done or said, and then do so gently.

Sue Patton Thoele

One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay

John Taliaferro

Most of us make assumptions about how someone will relate to us, and they are often unfounded.

Michele Jennae

Frankie, I'm fully awake and more curious than George. If we hang up I'll lie here formulating a million reasons for your call, none of them your truth, and that would drive me crazy. You wouldn't do that to the guy who has your grandmother's old phone number, would you? Trust me, you can tell me anything.—Emerson

Liza M. Wiemer

When communication in unclear speculations takes precedence.

Shantelee R. Brown

I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English.

A.J. Jacobs

You don't talk dirty to make him hot. You "talk dirty" to communicate what you need. And most guys, if you go, "Yeah, yeah, just like that, a little more to the left," they'll do it.

Nina Hartley

Communication land lines are going to be around for a long time, the internet runs on them, as do the wireless cell phone towers.

Steven Magee

Real communication is not possible. That is why my message, your perception and your expression shall never be the same.

Harshit Walia

Suddenly I've become so restless that I'm capable of saying "That is enough" and ending what I'm writing you, which is based mostly on blind words.

Clarice Lispector

G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.

A.J. Jacobs

What does it mean to be an advocate? In its broadest sense, advocacy means “any public action to support and recommend a cause, policy or practice.” That covers a lot of public actions, from displaying  a bumper sticker to sounding off with a bullhorn. But whether the action is slapping something on the back of a car or speaking in front of millions, every act of advocacy involves making some kind of public statement, one that says, “I support this.” Advocacy is a communicative act. Advocacy is also a persuasive act. “I support this” is usually followed by another statement (sometimes only implied): “...and you should, too.” Advocacy not only means endorsing a cause or idea, but recommending, promoting, defending, or arguing for it.

John Capecci and Timothy Cage

A world without radio is a deaf world. A world without television is a blind world. A world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Typography is what communication looks like.There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented.

James Felici

Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.

N.T. Wright

Typography is the use of type to advocate, communicate, celebrate, edu- cate, elaborate, illuminate, and disseminate. Along the way, the words and pages become art.

James Felici

Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it.

Ina May Gaskin

The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society—and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.

William H. Whyte

There were other things,too, to ask him. Always she tries to be less forward. Always she tried to find the right thing to say and didn't trust the etiquette pendulum swinging in her head, so she simply said nothing, which was perceived either as painful shyness of haughtiness. Dasha never had that problem. She just said the first thing that came into her head. Tatiana knew she needed to rust her inner voice more. It was certainly loud enough

Paullina Simons

Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive.

Theodor W. Adorno

It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.

James Rozoff

God uses language to create and command us.

Eugene H. Peterson

As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.

Richard Brookhiser

Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams

Paul C. Nagel

This culture of distraction was nothing new. Christianity was born into one.

Mark Sayers

Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.

Richard Brookhiser

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

Eugene H. Peterson

Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.

Joe Cawley

There is nothing quite as destructive to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the use of language that dismisses the way Jesus talks and prays and takes up instead the rhetoric of smiling salesmanship or vicious invective.

Eugene H. Peterson

Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.

Richard Brookhiser

We cannot all write like Lincoln or Shakespeare, but even the least gifted of us has the incredible instrument, our voice, to communicate the range of human emotions. Why would we deprive ourselves of that?

Sherry Turkle

A diplomat who says “yes” means “maybe", a diplomat who says “maybe" means “no”, and a diplomat who says “no” is no diplomat.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

Communication is an art and a meaningful conversation is a masterpiece.

Jasz Gill

Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.

Somali K Chakrabarti

Staring into someone’s eyes for a long time is psychic. At first it’s very strange and scary - scarier than the first time you have sex. Then you begin to relax, and the person you’re looking at may become very beautiful. As you look into their eyes, you may see them change sex or race. You can see the child in an old person and a young person may appear ancient. Just looking into someone’s eyes for a long time can be trippier than taking acid.

Steve Abbott

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

Stephen L. Carter

He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.

Jeffrey Toobin

A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence.

Harold Holzer

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