Communication Quotes

"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."

"A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial of boys with autism found that two to three servings of cruciferous vegetables a day improves social interaction, abnormal behaviour and verbal communication - within a matter of weeks."

"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."

"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."

"And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before."

"Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening."

"Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music."

"As Americans lose the wider face-to-face ties that build social trust, they become more dependent on romantic relationships for intimacy and deep communication and more vulnerable to isolation if a relationship breaks down."

"Be not a slave of words."

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."

"Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich."

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

"But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication."

"But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms."

"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth."

"Clear communication is always important in central banking, but it can be especially important when economic conditions call for further policy stimulus but the policy rate is already at its effective lower bound."

"Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life."

"Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper."

"Communication is everyone's panacea for everything."

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

"Communication services need interoperability to succeed - and Loopt is the first such service since SMS that is available across all major U.S. wireless carriers."

"Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits."

"Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?"

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

"During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts."

"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."

"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."

"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts."

"Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized."

"Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication."

"Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way."

"Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud."

"Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?"

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."

"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."

"Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."

"Good words are worth much, and cost little."

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

"He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave."

"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."

"I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country."

"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil."

"I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email."

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

"I don't think there's such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about."