100+ Communication Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

topic: Communication, People, Vulnerable

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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 Belz

source: "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

topic: Communication, Media, Perspective, Astute

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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

- Aaron Koblin

topic: Communication, Growing, Social

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

topic: Communication, Skills, People, Communication Skills

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

topic: War, Communication, People

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

- Abigail Adams

source: 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

topic: Communication, Diversity, Political, Language And Communication, Languages Communication

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

topic: Friendship, Loyalty, Communication

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Book, Communication, Humor, Language And Communication, Languages Communication

Expression and communication in the peakâ€“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

topic: Communication, Expression, Language, Peak Experiences

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

- Abraham Maslow

topic: Communication, Way, Language, Language And Communication, Languages Communication

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

topic: Communication, Way, Defense, Language And Communication, Languages Communication

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

topic: Religious, Communication, Leader

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

- Adam Driver

topic: Communication, Men, Acting, Becoming A Man

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

topic: Communication, Hypocrite, Player, Hypocrit

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

topic: Communication, Years, Atheism

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 Badiou

source: Alain Badiou (2002). “Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil”, p.52, Verso

topic: Real, Communication, Opposites, Complete Opposites

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

- Alain Resnais

topic: Communication, Emotion, Form

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

topic: Love, Appreciation, Communication, Love You Forever

The people who matter will recognize who you are.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Communication, People, Matter

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

topic: Communication, Television, Warning, Mass Communication

Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

- Alan Kay

topic: Communication, Humanity, Enough

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

topic: Communication, Philosophical, Taken, Communication Technology

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 Watts

source: Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.7, New World Library

topic: Communication, Unique, Men

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

topic: Communication, Reality, Sitting, Vicarious

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

topic: Communication, States, Passages, Dependency

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

topic: Communication, Men, Two, Mass Communication, Brave New World Consumerism

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

- Aleksander Kwasniewski

topic: Communication, Community, Generations

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

topic: Communication, Cutting, Retreat, Lines Of Communication

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

topic: Communication, Perfect, People, Elocution, Phonetics

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

topic: Believe, Communication, Mean

You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Communication, Devil, Scholar

There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not approach in importance the communication of what mathematics is really about, of where it is going, and of where it currently stands with respect to the specific branch of it being taught. What really matters is the communication of the spirit of mathematics. It is a spirit that is active rather than contemplative-a spirit of disciplined search for adventures of the intellect. Only as adventurer can really tell of adventures.

- Alfred Adler

topic: Teacher, Communication, Adventure, Contemplative

Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.

- Alfred Jarry

source: "That Ubu that you do" by Mike Barnes, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

topic: Communication, Talking, Mind

The relationship is the communication bridge between people.

- Alfred Kadushin

source: Alfred Kadushin, Professor Alfred Kadushin, Goldie Kadushin (2013). “The Social Work Interview”, p.82, Columbia University Press

topic: Communication, Bridges, People

It's often said that you learn more from defeat than victory and the RNC has certainly taken that to heart. After difficult losses in 2012, the RNC has made great strides in identifying the problem, outlining solutions, and implementing a strategy to turn things around. The RNC's outreach and communication with African Americans, Hispanic Americans, women, youth, and the faith-based community is working. We've already seen it pay off in the FL 13 congressional race and we will see that continue across the country in the 2014 midterms and in 2016.

- Alice Stewart

topic: Country, Communication, Taken, Midterms, Outlining

The solution was eventually found by Johannes Gutenberg, who made the breakthrough that finally established printing as the communication technology of the future. Similar ideas may have been under development around the same time in Prague and Haarlem. But in business, the key question is not about who else is in the race, it's about who gets there first. Johannes Gutenberg was the first to make the new technology work, ensuring his place in any history of the human race.

- Alister E. McGrath

topic: Communication, Technology, Ideas, Gutenberg, Communication Technology

To utilize social media tools effectively and properly, you must absolutely generate spontaneous communications in direct response to what others are saying or to what is happening in that moment. Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.

- Aliza Sherman

topic: Being Yourself, Communication, Media

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

- Allan Bloom

topic: Communication, Greek, Special, Archeology, Common Culture

It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.

- Allison Mackie

topic: Dream, Communication, Light

Macey couldn't decide whether to be intrigued that Hale was walking around with a state-of-the-art covert communications device or be jealous because she'd been caught without one of her own.

- Ally Carter

topic: Art, Communication, Jealous, Hale

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

- Alva Myrdal

topic: Communication, Discovery, Invention, Interchange, Reciprocal

For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications.

- Alvaro Uribe

topic: Communication, Gun, Soldier

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

- Alvin Adams

topic: Communication, Keys, Views, Instant Communication, Inquisitive

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.

- Alvin Toffler

topic: Communication, Fire, Media, Interconnection

Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks

- Amit Abraham

topic: Long Distance Relationship, Communication, Poor, Inspirational Long Distance, Inspirational Long Distance Relationship

Many can argue - not many converse.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Communication, Arguing

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

- Amy Klobuchar

source: POLITICO Interview, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.

topic: Communication, Kids, Years

The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.

- Ananda Coomaraswamy

topic: Art, Communication, Mean

The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".

- Anatol Rapoport

source: "Modern Systems Research for the Behavioral Scientist" by Anatol Rapoport, (p. 139), 1969.

topic: Communication, Information, Flow

The transition from the concept of information in the technical (communication engineering) sense to the semantic (theory of meaning) sense was indeed difficult, if not impossible.

- Anatol Rapoport

source: "Readings in interpersonal & organizational communication" by Richard C. Huseman, (p. 35), 1977.

topic: Communication, Engineering, Transition

The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.

- Anatoliy Golitsyn

source: Anatoliy Golitsyn (1995). “The Perestroika Deception: Memoranda to the Central Intelligence Agency”

topic: War, Communication, Phases

...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy which is intended to procure the subservience of the West to Moscow under an ultimate Communist World Government.

- Anatoliy Golitsyn

topic: Communication, Government, Weakness, Acceleration, Subservience

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

- Andre Gide

topic: Communication, Learning, Knowledge

You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.

- Andre Malraux

topic: Art, Communication, Mass

The future science of government should be called 'la cybernÃ©tique' (1843) Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,' from the Greek (Kybernetes = navigator or steersman), subsequently adopted as cybernetics by Norbert Weiner for the field of control and communication theory.

- Andre-Marie Ampere

topic: Art, Communication, Mean, Navigators, Cybernetics

The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Communication, Organization, People, Knowledge And Information, Sharing Knowledge

Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

topic: Summer, Communication, Night

There's no quit in our family. Our dad was the chief proponent of that. [On the set] we were constantly telling each other, Stay true to the story, we know that we love each other, keep communication open. We knew how unique this was-you're doing a movie that really could be put out there all over the world, and you're telling this personal story about your family.

- Andrew Shue

topic: Dad, Communication, Unique, Personal Stories

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

- Andy Grove

topic: Communication, Determined, Communicate

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

- Andy Serkis

topic: Nice, Communication, Artist

Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.

- Andy Stanley

topic: Life Changing, Inspiration, Communication

I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better appreciation for the fact that if any community is going to prosper, if any community is going to be seen at its best, that the women in that community have to be viewed as equally as important as the men. And [women] have to be able to live outside of boundaries that are placed on them because of their gender. As well as their race or their religion.

- Anita Hill

source: "Then & Now: Anita Hill". www.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

topic: Appreciation, Communication, Men

When we're each aware of our own Magnificence, we don't feel the need to control others, and we won't allow ourselves to be controlled.

- Anita Moorjani

topic: Communication, Needs, Magnificence

We will see beauty in the outer world when we are able to see beauty within ourselves. And this is the best thing we can do for ourselves and for the universe.

- Anita Moorjani

topic: Communication, World, Able, Beauty Within

People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Communication, Passion, People

The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Communication, Keys, Organization, Handling Problems

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

- Ann Landers

topic: Communication, Talking, May, Effective Communication

Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

- Anna Deavere Smith

topic: Communication, Reality, Desire

I like sets that feel small. Sets that feel really big are difficult. When you're on a big set it feels like there's constant mis-communication.

- Anna Kendrick

topic: Communication, Bigs, Difficult

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

- Anne Archer

source: "Anne Archer and Michelle Danner Come Together For A New Play". Interview with Jamie Painter Young, www.backstage.com. October 12, 2011.

topic: Art, Communication, Important

Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions. Or, as Marianne Moore put it, "The world's an orphan's home." And this feels more true than almost anything else I know. But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, read one line, and said, "Yes!" And I want to give people that feeling, too, of connection, communication.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Book, Communication, Home, Dazed, Emergency Room

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

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Coffee, Communication, Memorable, Language And Communication, Languages Communication

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

- Anne Roe

topic: Communication, Scientist, Social, Social Obligation

The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.

- Anne Sweeney

topic: Team, Communication, People

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

- Annie Leibovitz

topic: Communication, Artist, Thinking, Verbal Communication

Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace simply a quiet state of equilibrium-impossible to achieve in an evolving system. Though refraining from harm is an essential first step, lasting peace is created by actively redressing harm done. Peace is a creative process of actively joining I and thou into a co-creative we. It requires authentic communication, empathic listening, and wildly creative solutions.

- Anodea Judith

topic: Communication, Creativity, Creative, Creative Solutions

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Powerful, Communication, Inspirational Photography, Inspiring Photography

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Art, Communication, Landscape Photography, Factual

Let the work speak for itself.

- Anthony Caro

topic: Communication, Speak

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

- Anthony S. Fauci

source: “What inspires you?” by Anthony S. Fauci, bigthink.com.

topic: Communication, Thinking, Needs

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Communication, Men, Voice, Transport, Human Voice

The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor does he intend to convert people by using mass communication techniques... Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody. He could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences.

- Antoni Tapies

topic: Wise, Lying, Communication, Mass Communication, Wise Advice

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

- Antonin Artaud

source: Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.549, Univ of California Press

topic: Communication, Teeth, Language, Chatter

High thoughts must have high language.

- Aristophanes

topic: Book, Communication, Beer

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

topic: Communication, Opportunity, Phones, Cell Phone, Instant Communication

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

- Arnold Bennett

topic: Communication, Voice, Tone, Friction

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Depressing, Communication, Mean, Means Of Communication

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Communication, Years, America, Satellites, Telegraph

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Communication, Technology, Important, Communication Technology, No Communication

It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of the atmosphere and left to broadcast scientific information back to the Earth. A little later, manned rockets will be able to make similar flights with sufficient excess power to break the orbit and return to Earth. (1945) [Predicting communications satellites.]

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Communication, Science, Years

One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided with that of the Earth's equator, would revolve with the Earth and would thus be stationary above the same spot on the planet. It would remain fixed in the sky of a whole hemisphere ... [to] provide coverage to half the globe, and for a world service three would be required, though more could be readily utilized. (1945) [Predidicting geosynchronous communication satellites]

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Communication, Sky, Would Be, Equator, Radius

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

- Arthur Miller

topic: Communication, Responsibility, Expression, Concentration Camp, Dehumanization

Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.

- Arthur W. Pink

topic: Prayer, Communication, Mean

Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book.

- Arun Manilal Gandhi

topic: Attitude, Book, Communication, Appropriate Time

I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world.

- Arun Manilal Gandhi

topic: Book, Communication, Reading

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

- Asger Jorn

source: "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 145), 2002.

topic: Art, Communication, Reality

Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Communication, Kissing, Wonderful

Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and messages, information and persuasion; it also meets a deeper need and serves a higher purpose. Whether clear or garbled, tumultuous or silent, deliberate or fatally inadvertent, communication is the ground of meeting and the foundation of community. It is, in short, the essential human connection.

- Ashley Montagu

topic: Communication, Media, Community, Human Connection, Higher Purpose

Communication is so key.

- Ashley Tisdale

topic: Communication, Keys

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

- Aubrey Beardsley

source: Aubrey Beardsley (1921). “Under the Hill: And Other Essays in Prose and Verse”

topic: Communication, Rude, Language

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

- Aubrey de Grey

source: "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

topic: Communication, Wikipedia, Helping

Great communication, Character, Competitive drive, Consistency, Compassion, Confidence -- skills successful leaders share.

- Avery Johnson

topic: Communication, Character, Successful, Successful Leaders, Great Communication

She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Communication, Sight, Achievement, No Communication

Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.

- B. R. Ambedkar

topic: Communication, Doors, Class

We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.

- B. W. Powe

topic: Communication, Technology, Culture, Membranes

Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could precail of the ideology of capital.

- B. W. Powe

source: "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.

topic: Communication, Fire, Self, Linkages, Wiring

Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.

- Baker Brownell

topic: Art, Communication, Mean, Vicissitudes

You are already leaders. Your ideas, your actions and your decisions make a difference. More than any other generation, you have a voice. Social networking is changing how we interact - and it can change our world. You are in touch with peers from around the world. You understand the power of instant communication. I appeal to you to use that power for the common good, the power of communication and the power of networking.

- Ban Ki-moon

topic: Communication, Voice, Differences, Instant Communication, Social Networking

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

- Barbara Holland

topic: Communication, Needs, Language

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

- Barbara Tuchman

topic: Book, Communication, Quality

Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

- Barnett Newman

source: Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.158, Univ of California Press

topic: Dream, Communication, Men, Consonants, Helplessness

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

- Barry Goldwater

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Communication, Anger, Manners

More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is too soon to define the characteristic of the photographic style today, one common denominator, rooted in tradition, seems in the ascendancy. The direct use of the camera for what it can do best, and that is the revelation, interpretation, and discovery of the world of man and of nature. The greatest challenge to the photographer is to express the inner significance through the outward form.

- Beaumont Newhall

topic: Photography, Communication, Men, Ascendancy

I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding. If children all over the country are watching films, asking questions and telling their stories, then the world will eventually be a better place.

- Beeban Kidron

source: "Films in schools are inspiring children with the joy of learning" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

topic: Country, Children, Communication, Better Place

To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.

- Bell Hooks

topic: Communication, Commitment, Care, Open Communication

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

- Bell Hooks

topic: Communication, Choices, Next Steps

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

- Ben Bernanke

topic: Communication, Formal

Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.

- Ben Horowitz

topic: Mistake, Communication, Ambition

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.

- Ben Horowitz

topic: Communication, Keys, Quality, Hard To Trust, High Quality

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

- Ben Horowitz

topic: Communication, Challenges, Company

Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.

- Ben Hunt

topic: Beautiful, Art, Communication

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

topic: Art, Real, Communication, Missing Out

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

- Benjamin Banneker

source: Friends' Intelligencer, Volume XI (p. 821), 1854.

topic: Communication, Science, Evil, Bad Manners, Language And Communication

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Communication, Humor, Intelligent, Amused, Unkind

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

- Benjamin E. Mays

topic: Integrity, Communication, Honest

The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

- Bernadette Roberts

source: Bernadette Roberts (1985). “The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center”, p.47, SUNY Press

topic: Communication, Silence, Existence, Single Word, Communication With God

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Communication, Ideas, Important, Power Of Ideas

The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more will be the need for engineers in field armies; in the late war there were never enough Sappers at any time. Their special tasks involved the upkeep and repair of communications; roads, bridges, railways, canals, mine sweeping. The Sappers rose to great heights in World War II and their contribution to victory was beyond all calculations.

- Bernard Law Montgomery

topic: War, Lying, Communication, Upkeep, Calculations

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

- Bertolt Brecht

topic: War, Communication, Media

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Communication, Sisterhood, Men, Infancy Is

I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and tuning to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I'm trying to do.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Communication, Eye, People, Communication Skills

In April, I asked my staff to determine if Senate rules and relevant laws would allow me to direct the trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock. In May, my staff worked with outside counsel and with the Senate ethics committee staff to draft a written communication to the trustees. After obtaining pre-approval by mid-June from the Senate ethics committee, I issued a letter directing my trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock in my family's trust.

- Bill Frist

topic: Communication, June, Law, Trustees

I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

- Bill James

topic: Communication, Writing, People

If you have a privately owned system, there's going to be monies leaving the community that will go towards shareholder dividends and high salaries. If you have a community owned, municipally owned facility, those extra resources are being reinvested in the community and they can be going to weatherization and other projects that are vested in the community.

- Bill Simmons

topic: Communication, Community, Leaving

In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Communication, Anger, Doors, Havoc

There are some communities that feel you shouldn't give them the publicity, because it's just going to make people curious. There are communities who feel we need to fight them tooth and nail. What we have seen, though, is that ignoring them does not make them go away. If we sit back and let them have free reign, we lose members of our community.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Communication, Fighting, People

I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Believe, Communication, School, Achievement Gap

Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.

- Bill W.

topic: Communication, Imagination, Use, Modern Communication, Colossus

You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

- Bill Walsh

topic: Sports, Communication, Fighting, Interchange

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

- Billy Childish

topic: Real, Communication, People, Turner

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

- Blake Mycoskie

topic: Communication, Stories, Form

If we are to succeed we must communicate.

- Bob Johnson

topic: Communication, Succeed, Communicate

Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.

- Bob Lutz

topic: Communication, Design, Excellence

I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business and everything.

- Bob Parsons

topic: Communication, Years, Next

The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage.

- Bob Parsons

topic: Communication, Digital, Internet

As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

- Bobby Jindal

topic: Communication, Government, Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina, Coordination

everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

- Brenda Ueland

topic: Communication, Writing, Garden

Of all the life skills available to us, communication is perhaps the most empowering.

- Bret Morrison

topic: Communication, Skills, Empowering, Life Skills

Just open, honest communication is the best thing in the world.

- Brett Davern

source: "Meet Brett Davern from Awkward". Interview with Sarah Ramirez, www.seventeen.com. September 26, 2011.

topic: Communication, World, Honest

Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Communication, Fuzzy, Crystals

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 every part of your life.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Inspirational, Communication, Skills, Typing, Effective Communication

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

- Brigham Young

topic: Communication, Soul, Path

If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.

- Brock Yates

topic: Wall, Communication, Home, Off The Wall, Home Plate

Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.

- Bruce Barton

source: Bruce Barton (1920). “It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest”

topic: Communication, Men, Mind, Open Communication

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.

- Bruce Barton

topic: Smart, Communication, Talkers

If you keep shouting, you are not making communication any better. You are only removing the talking and whispering from the system. I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.

- Bruno Monguzzi

topic: Communication, Talking, Silence, Noisy

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

- Bruno Munari

topic: Communication, Artist, Secret

That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one of the stranger cultural ironies of our time. If you've bought one thing on the net, the newest and most prodigiously high-tech communications system imaginable, then it is almost certain to be a book, the oldest and simplest.

- Bryan Appleyard

topic: Book, Communication, Littles, Retailing, Trailblazers

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Communication, Essentials, Conflict

Anytime you are with a horse, no matter if you are a daily rider or one who just gets a chance to ride to the mailbox, you are interacting with your horse. It is all about the quality of the communication, not the quantity. Doing something right once in a while will far surpass anything done wrong more often.

- Buck Brannaman

topic: Horse, Communication, Quality, Mailboxes

I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet.

- C. J. Cherryh

topic: Communication, Thinking, Internet

Since every school in India teaches English, why can't it be our link language? Why do Tamils have to study English for communication with the world and Hindi for communications within India? Do we need a big door for the big dog and a small door for the small dog? I say, let the small dog use the big door too!

- C. N. Annadurai

topic: Dog, Communication, School, Hindi, Small Dogs

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

- C. Northcote Parkinson

topic: Communication, Void, Poison, Drivel, Misrepresentation

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Communication, Writing, Mean, Mean Words, Means Of Communication

Kylie bit down on her lip. Burnett took a step forward. He squared his shoulders, empathy filling his eyes. He took a deep, apparent heartfelt breath and looked at Kylie. She nodded at him as if giving him the lead. He looked back at Holiday and, in a deep voice, said, "Kylie has something to tell you." Kylie's mouth fell open and right then she knew it was official. Men sucked at verbal communication especially where anything emotional was concerned.

- C.C. Hunter

topic: Communication, Eye, Holiday, Verbal Communication, Steps Forward

Long story short, ghosts just coming out of the closet sucked at communication. Probably as bad as a beginner ghost whisperer sucked at getting them to communicate.

- C.C. Hunter

topic: Communication, Long, Beginners, Long Story, Coming Out Of The Closet

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

- Caitlín R. Kiernan

topic: Communication, Mean, Use, Means Of Communication

Taking advantage of the method, found by me, of the black staining of the elements of the brain, staining obtained by the prolonged immersion of the pieces, previously hardened with potassium or ammonium bichromate, in a 0.50 or 1.0% solution of silver nitrate, I happened to discover some facts concerning the structure of the cerebral gray matter that I believe merit immediate communication.

- Camillo Golgi

topic: Communication, Believe, Brain, Potassium, Hardened

There is another peculiar satisfaction in really hearing someone: It is like listening to the music of the spheres, because beyond the immediate message of the person, no matter what that might be, there is the universal. Hidden in all of the personal communications which I really hear there seem to be orderly psychological laws, aspects of the same order we find in the universe as a whole. So there is both the satisfaction of hearing this person and also the satisfaction of feeling one's self in touch with what is universally true.

- Carl Rogers

topic: Communication, Self, Order

If I can listen to what he can tell me, if I can understand how it seems to him; if I can see its personal meaning for him, if I can sense the emotional flavor which it has for him, then I will be releasing potent forces of change in him.

- Carl Rogers

topic: Communication, Emotional, Flavor

Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses the world outside and within, produces love and sorrow, keeps our hearts beating and lungs breathing, composes our thoughts, and constructs our consciousness.

- Carl Zimmer

source: Carl Zimmer (2014). “Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

topic: Communication, Heart, Breathing, Heart Beat, Heart Beating

There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians.

- Carmen Lawrence

topic: Communication, Media, Politician

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.

- Caroline Knapp

topic: Communication, Radical Change, Culture, Visual Images, Eighty

Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love. Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry. Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage. We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: "Who am I?" "Why am I?" "Where am I going?" - and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.

- Carson McCullers

topic: Communication, Writing, Love Is, Togetherness, Love Poetry

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

- Cass Sunstein

topic: Communication, Government, Self, Individual Choice

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

- Catherine Doherty

topic: Communication, Healing, Listening

It is so important for us to have faith, trust, confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love, it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn't die right away, it will be so weak, so ill, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well.

- Catherine Doherty

source: "Poustinia" by Catherine Doherty, (Ch. 12), 1975.

topic: Life, Communication, Tired, Faith Trust, Little Love

I still think of myself as a house. Ravan tried to fix this problem of self-image, as he called it. To teach me to phrase my communication in terms of a human body. To say: let us hold hands instead of let us hold kitchens. To say put our heads together and not put our parlors together. But it is not as simple as replacing words anymore. Ravan is gone. My hearth is broken.

- Catherynne M. Valente

source: "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection". Book edited by Gardner Dozois, July 3, 2012.

topic: Communication, Simple, Thinking

No blame, no hate - why no communication?

- Charlaine Harris

topic: Hate, Communication, Blame, No Communication, No Hate

Language is of divine origin.. Some may know this but do not realize its implications in their daily family life. Love at home starts with loving language.

- Charles A. Didier

topic: Communication, Love Life, Home

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

topic: Communication, Thought Provoking, Bravery, Language And Communication, Languages Communication

The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God.

- Charles Fox Parham

topic: Faith, Spiritual, Communication, Anointing, Direct Communication

One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.

- Charles Horton Cooley

topic: Pain, Communication, Loss, Pain And Loss, Countenance

We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.

- Charles Horton Cooley

topic: Lying, Communication, Ideas, Unimaginable, Stale

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

source: Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2005.

topic: Communication, Essence, Important

Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back sixteen years, to the days when Whitbury boasted of forty coaches per diem, instead of one railway, and set forth how in its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant house side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit, and parted from each other only by the high brick fruit-wall, through which there used to be a door of communication; for the two occupiers were fast friends.

- Charles Kingsley

topic: Wall, Book, Communication

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

source: Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.128

topic: Kindness, Communication, People

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

- Charlie Kaufman

topic: Inspirational, Communication, Talking, Eternal Sunshine

How you feel at the time affects how you receive and react to communication from others. You have to put on your objective eyes and ears in order to be consistently fair. - Charmainsim

- Charmaine

topic: Communication, Eye, Order

Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.

- Cherie Carter-Scott

topic: Communication, Journey, Confusion, Good Communication

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

- Cherrie Moraga