Communication Quotes
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As we're starting our investigation, instead of trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together, we found out how bad things really were down there as far as lack of communication between agencies and lack of interest by the people who were running these agencies. Basically, all they want to do is sweep it under the doormat.
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What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around which fellowship could form. We knew from experience that the essence of communal computing, as supplied by remote-access, time-shared machines, is not just to type programs into a terminal instead of a keypunch, but to encourage close communication.
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There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.
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In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.
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To lie is to intentionally mislead others when they expect honest communication.
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On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured into text messages, tweets and emails. All too often, personal connections are brushed aside for the sake of convenience in a fast-paced world.
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We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.
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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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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.
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In today's world, everyone's so clued into their iPhones, and communication is going by the wayside as far as one-on-one is concerned. It's very seldom that I walk into a room and parents make their children say hello and have a social grace with one another.
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There's this proud American tradition of worrying about the power of communication companies. That going all the way back to the founding, we've tried to limit the power of monopolies that played a role in our democracy.
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Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.
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Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.
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Every sexy joke of long ago, every flirtation, is being recalled by some women and revised and re-evaluated as sexual harassment. Frivolous accusations reduce, if not eliminate, not only communication between men and women but any kind of playfulness and banter... Where has the laughter gone?
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Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole life and why I wanted to become an actor and tell people stories, because communication and feeling like you belong is such an integral part of our social fabric.
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When you control communication, you can hide anything you want.
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I think they (U.S. Congress) hurt our relationships with people that we are trying to get communication and coordination from.
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When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
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Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.
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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.
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In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of affective communication between people.
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All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all.
