Communication Quotes

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be a...

If you have a room which you do not want certain people to get into, put a lock on it for which they...

The writer does want to be published; the painter urgently hopes that someone will see the finished ...

Art is communication.

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean somethin...

the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is de...

... she had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she...

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth...

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are conside...

People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing...

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

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.

Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones...

Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which bo...

We may say then that the contribution of the telegraph to public discourse was to dignify irrelevanc...

Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the ...

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not impor...

Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communicatio...

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a ...

In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau kn...

It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages an...

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is...

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always...

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think;...

I rarely interacted much with anyone back then who wasn't retarded. When I did, it struck me how pom...

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had cr...

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

A million years ago - some hairy bastard daubed a horse on the wall of his cave, he saw it, he drew ...

I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t...

In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.

In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.

In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.

In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, 'seeing' a...

When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not en...

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.

He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get throug...

In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of openin...

Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and ...

What had happened in these ten years for there suddenly be so much to say — so much so pressing that...

He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.

The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.

In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you...

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simp...

You can almost always find something in common with another person, and from there, it's much easier...

Or maybe he means in a richer world the begging population is melting away. But no to that too. So m...

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most...

. . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. ...

No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may ...

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

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the ...

Radio was theater of the mind.

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, ...

I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

Because feelings, emotional and physical, are so foregrounded in sexual encounters, the orgy is soon...

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an id...

We emphasize straightforwardness. You should be true to your feelings, and to your mind, expressing ...

When we say something, our subjective intention or situation is always involved. So there is no perf...

So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are i...

A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits it not open to things as they ar...

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to co...

When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opini...

The great obstacle to communication is the tendency to constantly evaluate or moralize with others, ...

Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experien...

To carefully listen is a powerful way of saying to another that we value that person. When we take t...

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking....

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

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

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control. We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our ...

I have something to tell you.""How, you have something to tell me?""You have understood me exactly."...

Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn ...

When a man says "I know what I mean, but I can't express it," he generally does not know what he mea...

What the dead had no speech for, when living,They can tell you, being dead: the communicationOf the ...

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, cal...

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course ...

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to a...

That was messages without meaning: telepathy without brains.

I guess the truth is nobody told this smart kid that communication between such divergent life forms...

I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find ...

When men live huddled together without true communication, there seems to be a greater sharing, and ...

Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ours...

He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says ma...

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is...

The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because people are thinking and communica...

In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence ...

A lively discussion is usually helpful, because the hottest fire makes the hardest steel.

The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned t...

There are no commitments, only bargains. And they have to be made again every day. You think making ...

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The...

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instea...

So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one...

A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own ...

...for she soars with the wildest hyperbole when not tagging after the most pedestrian dictum.