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Communication Quotes
"What's the book like?""Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!"
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"Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising."
343
"It's communication - that's what theatre is all about."
156
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
155
"I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet."
154
"And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know."
115
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."
104
"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."
88
"Life can be a misunderstanding, if we are ignorant of the right language or don't try to learn it. — If lions could speak, we would not understand them. — says Ludwig Wittgenstein. If we make an effort, however, we could manage to understand. ['Life was a misunderstanding']"
80
"Don't waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you."
77
"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."
70
"We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for. In all talking there lies a grain of contempt. Speech, it seems, was devised only for the average medium, communicable. The speaker has already vulgarized himself by speaking."
69
"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."
69
"Points of views that are expressed on Twitter don't intend to offend, but rather defend and open the conversation up to everyone so that no one has to pretend."
69
"One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them."
68
"No good ever came from not talking."
67
"Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean."
66
"Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason."
66
"The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."
60
"Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language."
58
"Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow."
58
"Silence is one great art of conversation."
58
"Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever."
58
"I don't want advice.' 'Nobody does. It's a giver's present."
58
"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
58
"When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures."
58
"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."
57
"The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication."
57
"There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up."
56
"I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication."
56
"The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it."
56
"Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic."
55
"Every word spoken is a reflection of your inner beliefs!"
55
"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."
55
"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."
55
"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings."
55
"I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me."
55
"Sometimes, how a person answers a question is more important than what they actually say."
54
"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication."
54
"Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener."
53
"Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering."
53
"All those big words produce disgust today."
53
"A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings."
52
"Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?"
52
"Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?"
52
"Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle."
52
"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well."
51
"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through."
51
"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."
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