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Communication is the process of exchanging information, ideas, or emotions between individuals or groups using verbal, nonverbal, or written mediums. It is a fundamental aspect of human interaction that allows for the sharing of knowledge, the expression of thoughts and feelings, and the establishment of relationships. Effective communication involves active listening, clear articulation, and empathy, as well as an understanding of cultural, social, and contextual factors. As the cornerstone of personal and professional interactions, communication plays a crucial role in fostering understanding, collaboration, and progress.
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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."
Unknown"Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble."
Yehuda Berg"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing."
Rollo May"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
Evelyn Beatrice Hall"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."
Edward R. Murrow"Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"The pen is the tongue of the mind."
Horace"My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships."
Jada Pinkett Smith"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
George Bernard Shaw"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."
Brian Tracy"The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy."
Florence Scovel Shinn"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
Hans Hofmann"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
Epictetus"The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
J. B. Priestley"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
Anton Chekhov"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."
Tony Robbins"A different language is a different vision of life."
Federico Fellini"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
Philip K. Dick"I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
Elon Musk"Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening."
Emma Thompson"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
George Eliot"Journalism is literature in a hurry."
Matthew Arnold"Communication is everyone's panacea for everything."
Tom Peters"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."
Mark Twain"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."
Peter Drucker"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."
Robert Frost"I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in."
Bill Gates"It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear."
Italo Calvino"Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud."
Hermann Hesse"Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success."
Paul J. Meyer"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
D. H. Lawrence"Good words are worth much, and cost little."
George Herbert"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill."
Buddha"Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection."
Eugenio Montale"The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."
T. S. Eliot"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack."
Winston Churchill"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
Amos Bronson Alcott"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."
Winston Churchill"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
Rudyard Kipling"The temple of art is built in words."
Josiah Gilbert Holland"There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen."
Christopher Morley"You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue."
Joel Osteen"Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much."
John Wayne"Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language."
Walt Disney"Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing."
William S. Burroughs"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
Gustave Flaubert"Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it."
Lou Rawls"The press is the enemy."
Richard M. Nixon"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."
Lao Tzu"I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people."
Jeanette Winterson"Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline."
Walter Winchell"To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man."
Marcel Marceau"I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading."
Charles Kuralt"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
Frank Moore Colby"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
Nathaniel Hawthorne"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through."
Sydney J. Harris"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."
Ansel Adams"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space."
Orson Scott Card"The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue."
Malala Yousafzai"Oaths are but words, and words are but wind."
Samuel Butler"It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning."
Dan Pallotta"A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication."
Matthew Lesko"Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships."
Stephen Covey"As long as there is communication, everything can be solved."
Robert Trujillo"As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication. Meetings must be deliberate and intentional - your organizational rhythm should value purpose over habit and effectiveness over efficiency."
Chris Fussell"We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'"
Ramez Naam"Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human."
Jan Koum"As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills."
Alain Dehaze"In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life."
Julie Payette"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well."
John Marshall"I work on the assumption that in the crowded mass communication field today you have to get in and get out with your message as quickly and simply as possible. You must communicate the maximum with a single glance."
Saul Bass"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
Joyce Brothers"I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email."
Elon Musk"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
Charles Baudelaire"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."
Lillian Hellman"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."
Wallace Stevens"If you wish to be a writer, write."
Epictetus"Words are all we have."
Samuel Beckett"You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face."
Erik Qualman"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."
Marilyn vos Savant"In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do."
Stephen Covey"No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist."
Karl Kraus"A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years."
Wendell Willkie"The waste basket is the writer's best friend."
Isaac Bashevis Singer"Writing is the supreme solace."
W. Somerset Maugham"He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave."
Baltasar Gracian"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."
Charles Dickens"Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides."
Rita Mae Brown"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."
Jim Rohn"Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind."
Charles Fillmore"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."Language is just a communication tool; it is the content that decides the fate of a film."
Ram Gopal Varma"Seeing other people is incredibly engaging, and that's one of the drivers that made us partner with Facebook - social communication. Not social newsfeeds, but actual face-to-face, seeing multiple avatars in a play experience, that's going to be a very big part of the future in VR."
Brendan Iribe"A more consistent and sustainable relationship with China will be a core goal of my administration. That requires open channels of communication, both with China's leadership and the Taiwanese people. -Tsai Ing"
wen"Thanks to the rise of cloud computing, collaboration tools are becoming increasingly affordable, allowing even the smallest firms to implement enterprise-grade solutions that can significantly improve communication lines between employees and customers. -Jean"
Philippe Courtois"Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication."
Sylvia Sidney"The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s."
Daryl Hall"Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them."
Ernst Toller"I studied at Cathedral School, where a lot of kids go abroad after Class XII. But I was clear that I wanted to be an actress, and thus, even though I got 92% in my board exams, I applied only to Jai Hind College for Mass Communication and got in and completed my graduation."
Kiara Advani"Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper."
Bo Bennett"Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon."
Nat Wolff"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."
Bill Gates"The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills."
Gerald Chertavian"I think it's important to have open lines of communication and I think the best lines of communication are two-way lines."
J. J. Redick"If you work at a 10,000-person company, and you're using e-mail as the primary means of communication, then you probably have access to a couple hundredths of 1 percent of all the communications happening across the company. But if you use Slack, you might have access to 10 or 20 percent."
Stewart Butterfield"The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication."
Lyall Watson"I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating."
Jarvis Cocker"Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God."
Story Musgrave"Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions."
Kenneth L. Pike"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people."
Jim Rohn"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."
John Galsworthy"Words are but the signs of ideas."
Samuel Johnson"Language is a virus from outer space."
William S. Burroughs"Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot."
George Lucas"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight."
Leo Rosten"A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work."
Goldie Hawn"Revelation is communication from God to His children on the earth and one of the great blessings associated with the gift and constant companionship of the Holy Ghost."
David A. Bednar"Communication and communication strategy is not just part of the game - it is the game."
Oscar Munoz"The beginning to correcting all of our mistakes is communication."
DeMarcus Cousins"If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum."
Elaine MacDonald"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
Henri Frederic Amiel"What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers."
Logan Pearsall Smith"No pleasure has any savor for me without communication."
Michel de Montaigne"One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it."
Helen Hayes"Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them."
Leo Rosten"Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break."
Earl Wilson"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words."
Ruth St. Denis"To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy."
Will Durant"Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone."
William Albert Allard"Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition."
Jack Welch"It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment."
Naomi Judd"The Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession posed daunting new challenges for central banks around the world and spurred innovations in the design, implementation, and communication of monetary policy."
Janet Yellen"The pop-music video is one of the most powerful communication tools we have. Most people have access to a phone, and you can click a video and absorb it in three minutes. If it's potent enough, you can take in the message or have some sort of experience in multiple dimensions, the music with the image."
Sophie"Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind."
Rockwell Kent"Design is a powerful factor in communication between disciplines and stakeholders and can transform knowledge into creative, human-oriented solutions that can promote companies' and countries' competitive ability and foster innovation and growth."
Jens Martin Skibsted"Pride definitely causes a lack of communication."
August Alsina"The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator."
Nuno Espirito Santo"Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection."
Vanessa Lachey"Mobile devices, high-speed data communication, and online commerce are creating expectations that convenient, secure, real-time payment and banking capabilities should be available whenever and wherever they are needed."
Jerome Powell"We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation."
Zygmunt Bauman"I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don't have."
Shoshannah Stern"By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication."
Ralph Ellison"As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge."
Ben Horowitz"I'll give the director what he wants, but please explain the requirement. If it reaches me, then there's communication."
Vijay Sethupathi"If you invest the time earlier to create structure and process around communication, planning, and goal-setting, you can prevent missteps before they occur."
Christine Tsai"A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer."
Karl Kraus"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."
H. G. Wells"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil."
Truman Capote"There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to."
Michel de Montaigne"Power in America today is control of the means of communication."
Theodore White"To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context."
Rowan Williams"I'm the biggest fan of face-to-face communication."
Mary Dillon"I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music."
Stephen Sondheim"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."
Isaac Asimov"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords."
Robert Louis Stevenson"Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions."
Bertolt Brecht"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."
F. Scott Fitzgerald"The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently."
Mark Zuckerberg"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things."
Matthew Arnold"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
Mark Twain"Whether you lead a nation, an enterprise, a community, or a family, we are all in the communication business."
Robin S. Sharma"I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs."
John Warnock"I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered."
Mary Szybist"Product investment, quality management, and all the things that are key for a car company - great, there has been no compromise in those aspects. But I feel there's a lot we could do on communication, particularly from a Chinese perspective."
Li Shufu"America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts."
Laurie Helgoe"It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication."
Victoria Osteen"Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture."
John McAfee"Human communication above and beyond the words that we say is so nuanced. It makes it difficult to not only analyze the vocabulary you use but the intention behind it. That's something even humans have difficulty doing, let alone a robot."
Grant Imahara"The four of us are really in sync with each other. We're pretty open about most things. We try to respect each other as much as we can. For us, communication is really important."
Ally Brooke"Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal."
Timothee Chalamet"If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not walk in there eating a ham sandwich unless I wanted to be rejected so I could have an excuse to cop out."
Saul Alinsky"I believe it's important to have a sporting director - someone to facilitate the communication between the club and the squad, and work on its planning. But not just at Madrid, at all teams."
Raul"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."
Marc Andreessen"I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin."
Itzhak Perlman"Trust brings a higher level of communication and a higher level of commitment and accountability."
Bruce Arians"I think for any relationship to be successful, there needs to be loving communication, appreciation, and understanding."
Miranda Kerr"You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer."
Thich Nhat Hanh"After a natural disaster, safe drinking water is a priority. Humans can live longer without food than water, so communication about clean water is essential to help avoid the risk of cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, famine, and death."
Tae Yoo"The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside."
Evgeny Morozov"Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate."
Christie Hefner"I hope somewhere to break down what seems to be a kind of robotic communication between those in power and those who are understanding power."
Emily Maitlis"I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand."
Sarah McLachlan"Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure."
Francois Fenelon"Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid."
Homer"Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken."
Ferdinand de Saussure"To hold a pen is to be at war."
Voltaire"But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour."
Thom Mayne"A relationship is based on communication."
John Cena"But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools."
Jesse James Garrett"Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely."
Rick Pitino"If I come in, and you're an employer, and I say, 'Well, I was a sniper in the Marine Corps. Do you have any sniper positions open?' 'No.' But if I told you that I was good at communication, good at leadership under stressful environments, team management, personnel management, leadership, being prompt, are stuff that I can bring to the table."
Dakota Meyer"There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak."
Charles R. Swindoll"Polite conversation is rarely either."
Fran Lebowitz"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
George Bernard Shaw"Languages are true analytical methods."
Antoine Lavoisier"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."
Epictetus"Words are but pictures of our thoughts."
John Dryden"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."
Carol Burnett"Everything is now moving fast so communication has to be fast as well. But the tragedy is that we have attained this speed at the cost of depth of words."
Javed Akhtar"There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive."
Jessamyn West"After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward."
Jim Barksdale"Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics."
Umberto Eco"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing."
Alva Myrdal"Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down."
Benjamin E. Mays"I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up."
Benjamin F. Wade"Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view."
Dick Morris"Lack of communication is the key to any successful relationship going wrong."
Pepa"I have a very open line of communication with both my children."
Gloria Estefan"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."
David Bohm"Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway."
Graham McTavish"History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed."
Ricardo Salinas Pliego"And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?"
Emma Thompson"Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world, but he could never show it to the people who supposedly meant the most to him: his wife and son. How can you talk about peace and love and have a family in bits and pieces - no communication, adultery, divorce? You can't do it, not if you're being true and honest with yourself."
Julian Lennon"Our most valuable resources - creativity, communication, invention, and reinvention - are, in fact, unlimited."
David Grinspoon"Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners."
Benjamin Banneker"The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication."
Mike Fitzpatrick"Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates."
Earl Sweatshirt"Communication needs to be between anybody at any time, which means it needs to happen out of the structure and out of order."
Edwin Catmull"Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff."
Douglas Conant"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth."
George Carlin"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted."
Groucho Marx"Wise people say nothing in dangerous times."
John Selden"I think people underrate the importance of investing in your communication skills as a way to progress in your career."
Julie Sweet"Wireless is the largest information, communication, and technology platform in history, and mobile broadband is transforming how we can deliver educational materials and experiences to all students. The technology now exists to support learning on a massive scale and advance the 21st century skills needed to compete in the global economy."
Peggy Johnson"My background is in arts education and we know, absolutely for a fact, that there is no better way for kids to learn critical thinking skills, communication skills, things like empathy and tolerance. This is true across every boundary, across cultural boundaries, across socioeconomic, it's a great leveler in terms of unifying our world."
Emma Walton Hamilton"Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction."
Gregory Bateson"In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts."
Erno Rubik"A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them."
James Madison"If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist."
Marianne Moore"Like people, when companies work to foster a culture of collaboration, communication becomes second nature."
Doug McMillon"I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate."
Anthony Fauci"The No. 1 reason for me to support and help launch Telegram was to build a means of communication that can't be accessed by the Russian security agencies, so I can talk about it for hours."
Pavel Durov"You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills."
Lesley Gore"Galactic plankton is undoubtedly out there, but it's statistically highly likely there's also another intelligent civilisation out there somewhere. Unfortunately, the distances and time differences are so great, communication might remain impossible."
Ben Miller"Communication is extremely important in any relationship - it makes the relationship that much healthier."
Raveena Tandon"Continuing on my theme of backing inclusive innovations, I am optimistic of the success of Uniphore. Man-machine communication is one of the more complex problems to solve. Uniphore's vision lends possibility of finding a solution to this very difficult problem, and the company has already made substantial progress."
Kris Gopalakrishnan"Communication is paramount, and what medium or what format you utilize should be a non-issue. In some respects, that has created a barrier for new media, especially web new media, because often times maybe the media itself comes before the concept, before the ideas, and ends up navigating or dictating the outcome."
Doug Aitken"Technology enables people to improve communication with unprecedented speed, scale and iterative testing. It also allows people to wreak chaos with high leverage."
Dominic Cummings"I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't converse with people. Maybe it's because of my stuttering or stammering, but I'm not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family."
Pritam Chakraborty"The disturbing truth about science communication is that we have theories and ways of delivering messages that really are like putting a candle to the dark, as Carl Sagan would say. We aren't sure what will work, when, or how much. But for all that uncertainty, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try."
Kyle Hill"It's communication - that's what theatre is all about."
Chita Rivera"We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries."
Harry S Truman"I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio."
Frank Ocean"The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting."
Dave Barry"Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it."
Conor Oberst"Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth."
Anthony Carmona"My mother and I always had full adult communication."
Erin Gray"Brevity is the soul of wit."
William Shakespeare"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm."
Calvin Coolidge"The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become."
May Sarton"Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link."
Simone Weil"With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication."
Lee Krasner"People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills."
Tracy Morgan"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."
William Inge"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."
Marcel Proust"If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing."
La Monte Young"The medium is the message."
Marshall McLuhan"Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication."
Karen Black"Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of communication, of making one feel. Otherwise it would just be gymnastics."
Ann Reinking"I'm a huge fan of online communities. I think that asynchronous internet-based communication forums such as Reddit and other discussion forums are one of the best things that could possibly have happened to collaborative invention. The Rift certainly would not exist without forums."
Palmer Luckey"I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies."
Esha Gupta"The characteristics of successful business people, whether they are male or female, are very similar. It's about determination, it's about enthusiasm, it's about strategy, it's about communication, it's about integrity. And sometimes men and women display those differently but fundamentally they are the same qualities."
Karren Brady"Millions of children all over the world live in silence and face communication barriers - and, particularly, access to education."
Rachel Shenton"For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting."
Adam Driver"A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production."
Robert Anton Wilson"Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health."
Lois Capps"Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating."
Julia Roberts"A communication highway without content is inconceivable."
Hubert Burda"My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him."
Emraan Hashmi"Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone."
Deborah Tannen"Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is."
Malcolm Arnold"We're making this analogy that AI is the new electricity. Electricity transformed industries: agriculture, transportation, communication, manufacturing."
Andrew Ng"That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is."
Lesley Garrett"Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian."
Shirin Neshat"Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people."
Kenneth Lonergan"The education process is moving beyond the traditional classroom/lecture setting. More and more teachers are seeking tools and techniques to engage their classes and enrich their lessons. Video calling is one of these tools, as it removes barriers to communication and lets students move beyond the boundaries of their classrooms."
Tony Bates"I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop."
Novak Djokovic"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts."
Blaise Pascal"Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow."
Rowan Williams"Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way."
Paulo Coelho"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture."
Wole Soyinka"The desire to write grows with writing."
Desiderius Erasmus"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."
Isaac Asimov"Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada."
Marc Garneau"Communication is everything, especially as a doctor, you need to communicate with your patients."
Manushi Chhillar"I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar."
David Gilmour"I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience."
Judd Nelson"Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale."
David Bohm"Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself."
Mark Twain"Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday."
John McWhorter"Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment."
Pearl S. Buck"Write in recollection and amazement for yourself."
Jack Kerouac"For me, good service is efficient and discreet; it's that critical balance. As soon as the client sits down, the communication flow has to start. Customers need to feel that the waiters are supervised - that there's a system in place."
Daniel Boulud"If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals."
Pico Iyer"All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet."
Stevie Smith"I think any great culture is born out of transparent, authentic communication. You almost can't overcommunicate. You can try, and you might think, 'Oh, do I really have to say this again?' And the answer is yes."
Brad Garlinghouse"Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail."
John M. McHugh"I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system."
Theo de Raadt"It's near impossible to always be right when you're innovating. It's easy to get emotionally invested in it, but you need to monitor its impact like a hawk and react if you don't like what you see. And if/when you pull it back, you want to do that communication with transparency and humility."
Jeff Jordan"If we can speed up the deployment of clean energy technologies in developing countries with investments from the Green Climate Fund, hundreds of millions of people will be able to access electricity for the first time - with all the education, health, communication and entrepreneurial opportunities electricity enables."
Ed Davey"Communication is something that I find if don't do, I will go missing, I won't be fully focused. If I'm constantly giving messages to the defenders not only do they know where they are but I am switched on and in the right position. It all links together."
Jack Butland"Every time you go in to make a record with the same group of musicians, the communication gets better and better. You've got that joint experience, and you learn with every single one that you have on top of that."
Passenger"Your mom is the first person you fall in love with, so it's loaded forever and carries all this baggage. There's almost always a communication barrier in place. In my case it's a language and cultural barrier, but other times, it's because your mother's love is conditional or because you're fundamentally different."
Mary H.K. Choi"We're really building, at the highest level, the future of entertainment. And we're involved in the convergence of social communication and storytelling and we're doing it in immersive, 3D, social environment."
David Baszucki"I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares."
Benny Green"Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication."
Emmanuel Jal"We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood. -Maya Soetoro"
Ng"I think, in picking a doctor, you should focus less on the degree and more on their knowledge, bedside manner, communication, and patients' experiences."
Mikhail Varshavski"Digital communication is completely different from in-person, face-to-face conversations. One will give you surface insights, and the other really gives you depth."
Joe Gebbia"To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills."
Alan Greenspan"The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels."
William Friedkin"When I directed the 'Ring' cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York recently, there were people texting all through the show. But theatre isn't a communication device: it's a communion."
Robert Lepage"The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands."
Deborah Tannen"In Trump's world, men get to play by different rules. Even the witch hunt over Hillary Clinton's emails exudes a double standard. George W. Bush 'lost' 22 million emails during his presidency. We can't even go back and look at the communication regarding the decision to invade Iraq."
Mel Robbins"There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy."
Annie Leibovitz"I found that I can never know enough, and that many times the best form of education is through communication."
Jessica Mendoza"Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence."
Faith Baldwin"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
Rebecca West"It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere."
Marya Mannes"Different people need different kinds of communication for it to have the same effect. That was something I had to learn."
Tobias Lutke"Throughout my scientific career, my wife has been my most constant collaborator. Her experimental skill made major contributions to the work; she has eased for me beyond measure the difficulties of communication that accompany deafness; her encouragement and fortitude have been my strongest supports."
John Cornforth"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."
Ernest Hemingway"It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better."
Marya Mannes"Be not a slave of words."
Thomas Carlyle"Writing only leads to more writing."
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette"Syllables govern the world."
George Bernard Shaw"Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less."
Leo Rosten"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field."
Stephen Covey"I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear... But there is a chance that something... will talk to me from the dark, so I have... to be prepared for that communication, which has happened."
Emil Ferris"It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication."
Mark Ruffalo"I think the best projects understand that they don't need to invent a new currency. They don't need to use the block chain as their long-term data storage solution. And they don't need to use the peer-to-peer network as their communication mechanism. They should use the block chain as the world's most secure distributed ledger."
Gavin Andresen"When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it."
Yoko Ono"If you're looking for ways of getting quick communication, maybe texting is the way to go. People can't walk these days without having one hand balancing a smart phone. If that's the way people are going to live, it is the case that something that vibrates in their hand is going to get their attention more quickly than an email."
Ray Tomlinson"Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people."
John Warnock"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."
Wole Soyinka"The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication."
Hidetoshi Nakata"A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path."
Alex Grey"My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem."
Oona Chaplin"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."
Napoleon Bonaparte"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication."
Harold S. Geneen"It's refreshing to just see someone that you can have honest communication with."
Danny Ainge"Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across."
Charles Kennedy"Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials."
Thor Heyerdahl"The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation."
Quentin Bryce"Unfortunately, changing forms of Internet communication are quickly outpacing laws and technology designed to allow for the lawful intercept of communication content."
James Comey"There's a high level of communication between all of us at Marvel, and between Marvel and Lucasfilm."
Jason Aaron"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
William Wordsworth"In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle."
Palmer Luckey"Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability."
Lobsang Tenzin"You can't compete globally unless you have appropriate communication skills."
James Wolfensohn"Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people."
Christian Louboutin"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard."
Anne Spencer"Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other."
Benjamin E. Mays"There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others."
Nikolai Gogol"Most people have to talk so they won't hear."
May Sarton"Language is memory and metaphor."
Storm Jameson"I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible."
Dick Wolf"There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them."
Jason Schwartzman"One must be frank to be relevant."
Corazon Aquino"Vocal rest is awesome. It is like any kind of fast. Firstly, it is a purification of speech. It made me realize how not careful I am with the things I say. It also makes you find new ways of communication and new methods to connect with people."
Matisyahu"I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication."
Sylvester Stallone"Why do we have to live with divides between different types of communication?"
Lars Rasmussen"I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly."
Larry Page"It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and exposes them in a way that the traditional model of journalism and its closed, insular, one-way form of communication could never do."
Glenn Greenwald"Hunting for malware requires highly specialized knowledge of the intricacies of the domain name system - the protocol that allows us to type email addresses and website names to initiate communication. DNS enables our words to set in motion a chain of connections between servers, which in turn delivers the results we desire."
Franklin Foer"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."
Abraham Maslow"I think communication is massive in football and in all sports in general."
Olivier Giroud"With clearly defined roles and a focus on communication, it's much easier to make your company come across as well-organized and on top of things - because it actually is."
Kathryn Minshew"This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art."
Robert Delaunay"Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words."
Leonard Mlodinow"Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted."
Mireille Guiliano"Strong alliances can thrive even where disagreements exist, but they cannot thrive where free and open communication is shut down."
Sharice Davids"You hope to bring your 'A Game' to any game, and of course you do in a final. You hope to bring experience, fitness, communication skills, motivational skills."
Edwin van der Sar"We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons."
Sara Zarr"Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me."
Lyndon B. Johnson"If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication."
Benjamin E. Mays"Part of playmaking is communication, when you have nobody on the field talking, particularly when you are under pressure, it becomes twice as hard."
Steve Nicol"Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment."
Susan Wojcicki"Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater."
Anne Archer"Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living."
Harold Pinter"In communications, familiarity breeds apathy."
William Bernbach"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."
Joseph Conrad"There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit."
Tom Wolfe"When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her."
Estee Lauder"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation."
Walt Disney"I've learned that leadership requires a number of qualities. It's behavioural, tactical, technical, about communication... everyone has these to varying degrees. I try to encourage players to show theirs."
Tite"I never graduated from college. While I was in a mass communication class at North Texas State University, I was on the air weekends in Dallas and knew more about major-market radio than the guy teaching. When I told him that, he failed me."
Elvis Duran"Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted."
F. Sionil Jose"It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence."
Jacques Barzun"It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate."
Peter Krause"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language."
Joseph Brodsky"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."
John Cheever"It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with."
William T. Wiley"If I have to name someone who is responsible for me coming to films, it is Ilayaraja's music. From a young age, I've been a huge fan of his music. Because of that, I studied Visual Communication."
Thiagarajan Kumararaja"The communication within Sinsaenum is really, really cool. As extreme as the music is, you might not realize how much we respect each other and how much we coach each other and how well we communicate."
Joey Jordison"Communication is so key."
Ashley Tisdale"As a black woman, there's so much pride and communication through hair. It's naturally something that you are excited to embellish on and be creative about."
Kelela"Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication."
Lyle Lovett"Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the early modern period, it was gradually displaced by French. By the eighteenth century, all the world - or at least all of Europe - aspired to be Parisian."
Michael Dirda"The more technologically advanced our society becomes, the more we need to go back to the basic fundamentals of human communication."
Angela Ahrendts"I studied B.Sc electronics to be an engineer and later did masters in communication and advertising. I loved engineering for what it could accomplish to make our lives easier. But, I realised that it was not my passion."
R. Madhavan"A lot of our communication has now become digital, and it does not mimic the natural way we have evolved to communicate with each other, so it's almost like we have this muscle, these social-emotional skills, and they're atrophying, right?"
Rana el Kaliouby"I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make a black and white drawing and then add color digitally, bringing in a contemporary pattern to the composition to create a vibrance."
John Van Hamersveld"My theory on an existing crisis is that you have to be very strategic about each case's unique elements. If a crisis involves a legal component, you need a communication strategy that complements the company's legal objective. A strategy for a plea deal is different than a case going to trial."
Judy Smith"The Internet has given us 10 or 15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting and tweeting. I see it all as part of an expanding array of linguistic possibilities."
David Crystal"Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now."
Lynne Truss"Communication is different in the clubhouse than it is in a boardroom. The heartbeat that exists in the clubhouse, you don't find that same type of heartbeat in the front office."
Theo Epstein"You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication."
Vint Cerf"I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it."
Nicolas Cage"Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window."
Christopher Voss"The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course, not all fictions are shared by all humans, but at least one has become universal in our world, and this is money."
Yuval Noah Harari"The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important."
Shepard Fairey"One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position."
Leonard Mlodinow"Acting is communication. It's giving and receiving."
KiKi Layne"It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other."
Oliver Evans"One of the instruments that really stuck out to me was the talking drum, which is basically the first type of communication device. It's a drum you put on your shoulder, and you can pitch it with your arm, and you can 'talk' with it."
Ludwig Goransson"Cove is essentially a collaboration, coordination and communication tool for the administration of organizations and communities, from the Stanford Graduate School of Business Entrepreneurship Club to church groups and schools."
Ruchi Sanghvi"So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology."
Michael K. Powell"But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers."
Armistead Maupin"Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man."
Louis Nizer"The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!"
Noam Chomsky"The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond."
Sheila E."Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family."
Virginia Satir"Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that."
Evelyn Glennie"I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way."
Lewis Thomas"To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel."
L. Lionel Kendrick"We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words."
Shepard Smith"The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product."
Frank Luntz"Writing is a communication."
Theodore Sturgeon"People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler."
Mike Farrell"I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet."
Omar Bongo"Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day."
William Allingham"You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more."
Dan Pallotta"Social media helps you stay connected, but we can't survive without real communication with loved ones."
Pulkit Samrat"Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them."
Leonard Mlodinow"We are not advertising ourselves as a secure platform. It's a communication platform. It's not our job to police the world or Snapchat of jerks."
Evan Spiegel"You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values."
John Collison"I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation."
Taryn Simon"Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom, or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication."
Chip Conley"I am worried about development in the field of information technology, communication, etc. So you cannot say that I have become inactive."
Sharad Pawar"I have my way of doing things, because I am that way, I try to raise my voice to motivate team-mates and make them aware that if they lose a ball it is not a problem, so I try to motivate my team-mates and to speak to them and, because I see the game from the back I see everything in front of me; communication on the field can help a lot."
Jorginho"Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication."
Maya Angelou"I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas."
Alain de Botton"If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think."
Ben Wheatley"I'm not the first person to say this, but communication at 'SNL' - I don't want to say it's not good, but unless you ask questions, you will not know what's going on."
Pete Davidson"It's kind of cliche, but communication is the biggest thing in a relationship. You have to talk; you have to express yourselves. You don't want to look back and resent not being heard."
Nick Lachey"A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries."
Ethan Zuckerman"The fact that there were discreet channels of communication established with Iran in 2012 is something that we confirmed publicly. However, we did not have any serious prospect of reaching a nuclear deal until after the election of Hassan Rouhani in 2013. Yes, we had discussions with the Iranians before that, but they did not get anywhere."
Ben Rhodes"As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference."
John McCain"Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble."
Charles Hazlewood"Know when to email vs. when to meet. Logistics are best handled over a non-immediate communication channel like email or Asana tasks. Detailed status meetings will suck the life out of your day."
Justin Rosenstein"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication."
Marshall McLuhan"The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success."
James Cash Penney"Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it."
John Burroughs"Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior."
Charles Sturt"My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world."
Anwar Hadid"I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects."
Joshua Lederberg"I think I am a good help defender as well as just bringing a lot of communication to the floor."
Iman Shumpert"What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another."
Erykah Badu"Trade is a communication of cultures and values."
Jack Ma"When you consider how many people are really not good at communication in general and interviewing in specific, it's no wonder that many companies struggle to build high-quality partnerships - or even staffs."
Michael Gerber"Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama."
Tina Brown"What's the greatest advice I give? Develop excellent communication skills."
Julie Sweet"Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics."
Sean Combs"Language cares."
Howard Nemerov"In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away."
Iyanla Vanzant"The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions."
Tariq Ramadan"The art of communication is the language of leadership."
James Humes"Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication."
Dinesh Paliwal"The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world."
Georges Simenon"Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich."
Umberto Eco"Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people."
Elise Andrew"We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols."
Jacques Lacan"Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids."
Richie Havens"I'm interested in direct communication about domestic life."
David Berman"Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following me. LinkedIn is, simply, a professional network."
Jeff Weiner"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."
Conor Oberst"Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?"
Tariq Ramadan"Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way."
John Drinkwater"I'm a big believer in communication."
J. B. Bickerstaff"Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite."
Tony Evans"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."
Robert M. Hutchins"Participatory democracies. Open economies. Web-based communication. All American innovations to the great conundrums of the globe."
Chris Murphy"Texting has definitely improved the communication between the deaf and hearing communities, but it shouldn't be... a substitute for learning the language to really connect with someone, especially someone you want to date or have a relationship with."
Millicent Simmonds"I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram."
Elizabeth Jagger"Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions."
Clive Sinclair"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate."
Mike Davidson"We're moving into an era when things are dematerialised and much more holographic. Floating above the physical world and the geographic map, there's another landscape that's constantly changing - something like a cloud - of communication, information, exchange and commerce."
Doug Aitken"Missions is not about sending missionaries, and missions is not about doing missions. Missions is about the communication of truth to men."
Paul Washer"I think in modern communication studies, we put a lot of emphasis on our relationships and our family relationships. Our relationships with our parents, and our siblings. I felt that there was this gap in content about communication with people who are super close to you in your peer group."
Finneas"I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes."
John le Carre"What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication."
Douglas Alexander"I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't."
Thomas Gold"People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication."
Yoko Ono"On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance. -Jean"
Francois Lyotard"The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff."
David Cronenberg"It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection."
Edward Sapir"My biggest piece of advice when it comes to bullying is to have an open communication about it."
Lizzie Velasquez"We use the block chain to share value, just like Internet protocol lets us share communication. Our goal is to build a global, international bank that is instant, global, and free. Sending payments should be as easy as sending an email."
Jeremy Allaire"Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast."
John Berger"Clarity of communication is important."
Lisa Su"I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication, should be probed to its extremes, to see how effective it can actually become, which is one of the reasons why I became also interested in presenting political points of view."
Ruben Blades"Music is the highest form of communication."
Shankar Mahadevan"Every sexy joke of long ago, every flirtation, is being recalled by some women and revised and re-evaluated as sexual harassment. Frivolous accusations reduce, if not eliminate, not only communication between men and women but any kind of playfulness and banter... Where has the laughter gone?"
Maryanne Trump Barry"I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation."
Rod McKuen"With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit."
Francis Chan"The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven."
William Ellery Channing"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
Henry Miller"It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven."
George Allen"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."
Ben Bernanke"I don't know that hearing people have ever felt that experience of truly being left out. They have easy communication, while deaf people can't join in. It takes more time to communicate with us."
Millicent Simmonds"Having to go through an intervention and family counseling is a wonderful experience. I would almost recommend it to anybody. It opens a lot of communication, and it opens old sores, but once it is opened and hashed out, the rewards are far greater."
Susan Ford"I respect the Japanese and especially like their execution and communication styles. Unlike the Koreans, they will not hit you from behind."
Terry Gou"If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism."
Thich Nhat Hanh"I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication."
Sean Covey"Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated."
Ken Robinson"The organization reflects the behavior and characteristics of the CEO, and that establishes the culture. Foster an environment of open communication, and the organization inherits a culture of open communication."
Peter Levine"Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction."
Jaron Lanier"Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors."
Leonard Bernstein"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."
Douglas Adams"Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place."
John Paul DeJoria"The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous."
William Graham Sumner"It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling."
Aaron Sorkin"Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful."
Don Miguel Ruiz"'Instagram' is a media company. I think we're about visual media. I explain ourselves as a disruptive entertainment platform that enables communication through visual media. I don't think it's just photos."
Kevin Systrom"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
Richard Thompson"To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality."
Cliff Shaw"But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated."
Roger Sessions"Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain."
Tina Louise"I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons."
Jared Diamond"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up."
Morrissey"Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication."
Richard Louv"All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different."
Gal Gadot"Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard."
Scott McCloud