Communication Quotes - Page 25

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.

Music is the greatest communication in the world.

The most dangerous question a prospect or customer asks is "Why should I?" And he may ask it more than once... The product and its communication stream must continue to provide him with both rational and emotional answers.

Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.

Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.

...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

Singing brings out in me what I can't normally bring out in everyday life. It's an incredible feeling to be able to bare your soul to people you've never met in a way that can make them understand so clearly what you mean. That's what I love most about singing ... it becomes my truest form of communication.

Don't do anything that isn't play

Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the press and other means of publicity, propaganda and communication.

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.

Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!

High thoughts must have high language.