Ex Communication Quotes

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

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

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

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

We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed by each part.

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

Communication does not always occur naturally, even among a tight-knit group of individuals. Communication must be taught and practiced in order to bring everyone together as one

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

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.

The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

I think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist anymore. I think it does.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.

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

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual can use encryption, and that it's accessible and in many cases free.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

When it comes to giving advice, never do so unless you've first received a request in writing, signed by a lawyer.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.

Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

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.

Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?

The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.

Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

What you feel, what you desire and what you want is not what you are. You are a consciousness. Speak consciously and speak what your consciousness allows you to speak.

Don't look over people's shoulders. Look in their eyes. Don't talk at your children. Take their faces in your hands and talk to them. Don't make love to a body, make love to a person.

All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.

Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.

When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.

Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.