Communication Quotes
Intrapersonal communication is a reflection of our daily messages.
Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying he'd uttered during the day, taking simple-hearted pleasure in some of his best hits.
A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence.
I have a couple of favorite relatives, but because they're so far away I tend to ignore them-even though they have mailboxes, email addresses and telephone numbers. Today, I'll get back in touch.
Don’t talk to people you don’t want to talk to, and don’t talk about stuff you don’t want to talk about.
Always best to start with violence and attempt communication second. People reacted more favorably when they knew you would snuff a few lives to get what you wanted... or for no reason whatsoever.
Relationships are an art form created by two or more individuals who have similar or complementary visions, passions, and ambitions.
Unhealthy relationships are most commonly lacking in the most essential of ingredient: healthy communication.
J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.
All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.
Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.
Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.
Old marketing was dictation... new marketing is communication. Change from Convince & Convert to Converse & Convert!
To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence.
It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.
God uses language to create and command us.
Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams
This culture of distraction was nothing new. Christianity was born into one.
Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.
Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.
A diplomat who says “yes” means “maybe", a diplomat who says “maybe" means “no”, and a diplomat who says “no” is no diplomat.
Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.
He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.
A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive.
All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people. The more
Pausing gives us the opportunity to arrive at an internal place from which we can choose wisely what needs to be done or said, and then do so gently.
One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear.
In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay
Most of us make assumptions about how someone will relate to us, and they are often unfounded.
I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English.
You don't talk dirty to make him hot. You "talk dirty" to communicate what you need. And most guys, if you go, "Yeah, yeah, just like that, a little more to the left, " they'll do it.
Communication land lines are going to be around for a long time, the internet runs on them, as do the wireless cell phone towers.
Real communication is not possible. That is why my message, your perception and your expression shall never be the same.
Suddenly I've become so restless that I'm capable of saying "That is enough" and ending what I'm writing you, which is based mostly on blind words.
G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.
Typography is what communication looks like.There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented.
Typography is the use of type to advocate, communicate, celebrate, edu- cate, elaborate, illuminate, and disseminate. Along the way, the words and pages become art.
Tell me what happens next, after my body has frozen. When I can't communicate. What will I be?
Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end.
So much of what we read and write these days is disposable.
Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me, ” he would say. “Johnson didn’t enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn’t think they had a sense of humor.
If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.
(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story),
Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you.
Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.
Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don't know why we are doing what we are doing.