Quotes and Sayings About Communication
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Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.
-- A. J. McLean -
Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.
-- Aaron BelzSource : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
-- Aaron Koblin -
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 -
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We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
-- Aberjhani -
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
-- Abigail AdamsSource : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE
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When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.
-- Abigail McCarthy -
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
-- Abraham Maslow -
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 -
We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development workers? And we asked the development workers, what are your reservations about religious leaders? It turns out that most of the problems are not really problems at all, but rather misunderstandings, misconceptions, and mis-communications.
-- Abul Kalam Azad -
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For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.
-- Adam Driver -
I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.
-- Adam Oates -
Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.
-- Al Ries -
The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
-- Alain BadiouSource : Alain Badiou (2002). “Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil”, p.52, Verso
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There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.
-- Alain Resnais -
Communication is an offering. When you tell someone your truth, you must release your expectation of what the other person should do with it. They may thank you profusely, love you forever, argue with you, or ignore you. It doesn't matter. Of course we hope the gift will be received with appreciation and thanks. But if it isn't we must not dictate. We've done our part, and we must trust the universe to do the rest.
-- Alan Cohen -
The people who matter will recognize who you are.
-- Alan Cohen -
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
-- Alan Kay -
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
-- Alan Kay -
I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
-- Alan Lightman -
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.
-- Alan WattsSource : Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.7, New World Library
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This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting rooms electronically. Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting-rooms electronically.
-- Albert Bandura -
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In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.
-- Alberto Manguel -
In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski -
The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
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Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.
-- Alexander Kluge