Communication Quotes - Page 8

Don’t believe on, “143 in written,” Because words contribute only 7% in communication!

An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.

Chip Heath

We don't communicate anymore. We just talk.

Donny Miller

Plants can feel pressure and emotion. When something is said or done with intention, a plant can respond. So every day we tell our tree that it is beautiful, it will get more and more beautiful. I hope that tree knew how beautiful I thought it was.

Kate McGahan

That was messages without meaning: telepathy without brains.

Terry Pratchett

Two things I've learned: 1) you simply cannot change someone's mind on certain issues and 2) some issues are so important you cannot stop trying to.

J.S.B. Morse

The English Language is a form of communication! Words aren't only bombs and bullets - no, they're little gifts, containing meanings. What is true in love, is equally true at law

Phillip Roth

More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, our culture has been carved up into radically distinct, unbridgeable, and antagonistic entities that no longer speak the same language and cannot communicate. This is the divide between a literate, marginalized minority and those who have been consumed by an illiterate mass culture.

Chris Hedges

Reality took forever — the underwater way people walked and sent their voices wobbling through the air, how printed words lay inert like bugsplat, all manifesting the basic DUH of the physical plane. By the time he decided to go anywhere he wondered why he wasn't there already. As soon as he sent an email he felt he should already have the reply. And learning any fact, he was annoyed not to have known it already, because whenever anything happened, the conversation around it had already trended and backlashed and been reexamined and swallowed and shat and reswallowed and reshat in a thousand places online, until all thinking felt redundant. We needed brain-to-brain; only then would we catch up to real time. Right now everything progressed so slowly that by the time we arrived at the future it was the present again.

Tony Tulathimutte

The power of well a formulated question unlocks the mind, frees the spirit and allows the imagination to realize a vision through the clarity of intent.

W Larsen Hughes

Conversation often becomes mere verbal performance and oral horseplay rather than fair-minded communication. (“Juicy rumours “)

Erik Pevernagie

A postcard and I'm pining for New England. . .

Amy Ballard

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Rollo May

Our age: more "communication experts" that important things to say.

Luigina Sgarro

Effective communication requires active listening skills.

Farshad Asl

People cannot escape the looming specter of a deathwatch and the imposing emptiness that comes with the termination of their existence. People resist going silently into the night. We seek to howl at the moon and make known our search for a diagrammatic overture that voices our unquantifiable existence. Terrified of squandering our existence, we each seek to break out from our muteness and strike an accord with our brothers and sisters whom share our inherent desire to reach a global consilience.

Kilroy J. Oldster

The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.

E B White

One of the benchmarks of great communicators is their ability to listen not just to what's being said, but to what's not being said as well. They listen between the lines.

Laurie Buchanan

People who are adept in healthy self-expression exercise front-end consideration before speaking.

Laurie Buchanan

Assuming less does not make you naive, it makes you a better listener.

Terry a O'Neal

There is no one-size-fits-all in communication—everyone’s interpretation of what what you say and how you say it is different.

Terry a O'Neal

I've been watching you ever since you came into town, and you never gave a single sign that you were interested in her. That's why I made a move. If I couldn't tell, neither can she.""I'm very bad at co

Dan Wells

Connecting to the outernet was less of a shock this time, as the monitor gave him a sense of distance from it, but it was still annoying. How did these people live with such a system, stalked by advertisements and "free" offers and icons that would take you to another site, unasked-for, the moment you gave them your attention? It was like wending your way through an obstacle course. Perhaps after a while you just learned to tune it all out... or perhaps you could buy programs that did it for you. He would have to design himself one of those before he did any more real work on the outernet, though he suspected that the consumer programs which were stalking him were capable of adapting to anything he could turn out quickly.Advertising: the ultimate predator. He longed for the simplicity of the Gueran network, which simply did what it was supposed to and no more. When had these people lost touch with the fact that the purpose of a network was to facilitate communication, not impede it?

C.S. Friedman

I am alone, but never lonely. I am lonely, but never alone.

Benjamin Aubrey Myers

I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it's cold on a hot day. It isn't good to talk so much about the weather — weather is a highly personal matter, and communication on the subject inevitably fails.

Yōko Tawada

Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.

Stephen R. Covey

Communication is the oxygen of a great culture.

kamil Toume

Media: the tongue of a nation!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Every new form of communication brings with it a perennial angst about what it is doing to our brains. We are not the first to feel that everything is changing too quickly around us, and we won't be the last. Throughout history, communication technologies have been catalysts of societal and cultural change that upset the status quo.

Alfred Hermida

You must be open and influenceable; then ironically, you will also discover an increase in your own power to influence

Stephen R. Covey

The messages must be stuck somewhere in the tube of light underneath the ocean that connects London and New York.

Olivia Sudjic

Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.

Sharon Salzberg

Good communicators always articulate messages in a manner they want others to understand and not how they understand it

Moonish Sood

It's not how well you communicate, but how intensely you have blended emotions with words that provides hints and triggers audiences mind to decipher and respond without your influence is what matters!

Ramana Pemmaraju

Communication happens on the periphery between two minds while communion melts two beings into one! What are YOU?

Ramana Pemmaraju

I rarely interacted much with anyone back then who wasn't retarded. When I did, it struck me how pompous and impatient they were, always measuring their words, twisting things around. Everybody was so obsessed with being understood. It made me sick.

Ottessa Moshfegh

Communication is not a two way street. It is a bridge. Either you have one or you build one. It's about connecting, not correcting.

Farshad Asl

Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.

Amitav Ghosh

In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages. And it is just this transition from tongue to hand that has permitted humans to regain the ability-lost, according to Josephus, since Eden-to communicate with the animals.

Carl Sagan

Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony.

Ashly Lorenzana

We have developed communications systems to permit man on earth to talk with man on the moon. Yet mother often cannot talk with daughter, father to son, black to white, labour with management or democracy with communism

Hadley Read

Here's one of the problems with communicating in the words of a man who is not around to explain himself: it's damn hard sometimes to tell what he was talking about. Look, the sheer fact that people have banged out book after article after dramatic interpretation of this guy should tell you that despite his eloquence, he wasn't the clearest of communicators.

Eleanor Brown

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid.""Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provençal."Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement.

Iain Pears

Effective Communication is a way to success

Jaspal Singh Malik

He opened the first letter, No "Dear Mr. Woods." It was a page full of profanities. There was something oddly refreshing about honest, to-the-point hate mail. No hypocrisy and forced politeness. Too many letters ripped you to shreds, then closed off 'Sincerely yours.

Randy Alcorn

I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me.

Octavia E. Butler

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

Joseph O'Connor

Open scatter is more fundamental than coupled sharing; it is the stuff from which, on splendid occasions, dialogue may arise.

John Durham Peters

Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.

Clay Shirky

We speak, and write, in one of the most diverse, gloriously ecumenical tongues on the planet. In English, there is a word or phrase for pretty much anything we want to say, and if there isn't, we make it up, and it is welcomed into the family. We can express ourselves as complexly or as simply as we like. We can be magniloquent didacts, or we can talk plain.

Jeff Deck

As human beings, how do we choose to react in that instant when someone walks toward us, smiles, and begins to speak?

Jeff Deck

Shulman argues that work that is valued is work that is presented to colleagues. The failure to make this kind of wider connection weakens the sense of community. This happens in scholarly life when such essential functions as professional service or teaching do not get discussed openly or often enough.

Charles E. Glassick

The more you engage and connect, the more engagements and connections you will have.

Loren Weisman

Communication creates collaboration. Big ears are better than big egos. When you’re not listening, ask good questions.

Bill Walsh

We have the best chance of communicating our thoughts if we are sincere and speak from the heart, without hidden intent.

Wu Wei

When Arecibo is not listening to anything else, it hears the voice of creation.

Ted Chiang

Just as we use speech and gestures to communicate, so we use touch. Words can say, ‘I love you’, but touch can also say how and how much, and, at the same time, ‘I respect you’, ‘I need you’, and ‘thank you’. For a long time, scientists somehow thought that touch served merely to emphasize a verbal message. But now it is clear even to them that touch can be the message, and that it can be more nuanced and sophisticated than either speech or gestures, and more economical to boot. What’s more, touch is a two-way street; and a person’s reaction to our touch can tell us much more than their words ever could. Finally, while words can lie, or be taken for granted, primal touch is difficult to either ignore or discount.

Neel Burton

Remember, no one can read your mind. People’s actions or lack of, are not always purposeful. If you have a problem that you wish solved, you must communicate it. If you don’t want to communicate your problem, then you also give away your right to worry, stress or complain about it. You are accountable for yourself.

Akiroq Brost

No" works just fine as a complete sentence. You don't have to explain yourself.I said no, then stopped talking.

Scott Stabile

Keep to the 'I-statements' and discuss your feelings, she lectured herself. I think, I feel. Don't be accusatory. Don't tell him that he is an insecure prick who should back off before you deck him. Instead, say, 'I feel you are acting like an insecure prick who should back off before I deck you.

Thomm Quackenbush

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