Ex Communication Quotes

Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion).

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.

Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

Lock all communication. If there's no light within my day. I'd rather stay in isolation. For that special someone a lifetime I'll wait.

We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.

Misunderstandi ngs happen because we do not understand that different people have different styles of communication.

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

For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport

Communication is the real work of leadership.

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.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

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

Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

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

Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.

Stay open to opportunity -- you never know where your next important connection will be made.

Real communication is impossible without listening.

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.