Communication Quotes

• There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.

  

  Howard Duane Allman The Allman Brothers Band
  • Communication
  • Music Is
  • Forms

• You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Learn
  • Communication

• 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
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Communication

• The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Important
  • History
  • Single

• Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Communication

• The Internet is the most democratic communication platform in history, largely because we've had network neutrality rules that make sure all web traffic is treated equally, and no voices are discriminated against.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • History
  • Communication

• Cooperating in something as visible as space exploration and space flight can only improve relations between the two countries because what happens is, you're working on a common project in a very visible light and so, you're motivated to not have conflicts with each other in other areas. And bringing up China is a good example. In the early '90's, China got serious about wanting to launch astronauts into space and they were actually quite successful in launching many communication satellites. They went ahead and in 2003 they launched their first astronaut into space.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Good
  • Light

• If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

  

  Benjamin E. Mays
  • Communication

• I don't think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it's just kind of happened, and by nature of having worked with my sister - growing up with a sister who also plays, and being in communication with other female musicians.

  

  Emily Robison
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Career

• 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
  • People
  • Science
  • Opportunity

• In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Communication
  • Familiarity
  • Apathy

• 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
  • Music
  • Important
  • Communication

• Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Communication
  • Banality
  • Cliches

• The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Change
  • Emotional
  • Speech

• 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
  • Society
  • Learning
  • Communication

• You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.

  

  Bruce Weber
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Communication

• For the social ecologist language is not 'communication.' It is not just 'message.' It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. ...Social ecologists need not be 'great' writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Great
  • Together
  • Community

• As the world gets smaller and communication spreads further and further out there, you try to find the right balance.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Small
  • Balance
  • Communication

• 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

• Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Possible
  • Truths
  • Can Be

• 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
  • Culture
  • Environment
  • Organization

• The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Powerful
  • Study
  • Physics

• I think they (U.S. Congress) hurt our relationships with people that we are trying to get communication and coordination from.

  

  Bernard Kerik
  • People
  • Trying
  • Relationship

• The new science of communication is percept, not concept. (p. 259)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Science
  • Communication

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