Communication Quotes - Page 11

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

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

The further conquest of space will make it possible, for example, to create systems of satellites making daily revolutions around our planet at an altitude of some 40,000 kilometers, and to assure universal communications and the relaying of radio and television transmissions. Such an arrangement might prove more useful, economically, than the construction of radio relay systems over the whole surface of the earth. The great accuracy of movement of these satellites will provide a reliable basis for solving navigational problems

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

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

Communication is the real work of leadership.

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

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

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.

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

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

Don't lie to your partner. Ultimately the expression on your face gives you away, and they feel betrayed by the lie. If this is the person you're going to be with - forever and ever, for better or worse - they will love you for all of your good and all of your bad. They'll love you for you. So open communication is key. I have no secrets and no skeletons in my closet with my husband, and I love that. I feel comfortable and at ease with myself when I'm around him. I love the woman that I've become with him.

Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

Real communication is impossible without listening.

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

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

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

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

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

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as 'the nature of things.' The very efficacy of opinion manipulation rests on the fact that we do not know we are being manipulated. The most insidious forms of oppression are those that so insinuate themselves into our communication universe and the recesses of our minds that we do not even realize they are acting upon us.