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The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
– Alva Myrdal
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The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.
– Mike Fitzpatrick
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The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage.
– Bob Parsons
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
– Karl Lehmann
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
– Florence Scovel Shinn
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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
– Michael Faraday
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The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.
– Tony Campolo
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The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.
– Rick Boucher
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The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.
– David Cronenberg
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The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.
– Georges Simenon
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The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.
– Kelly Miller
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The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
– Mary Martin
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The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.
– John Sweeney
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The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.
– Hidetoshi Nakata
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The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
– James Cash Penney
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That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
– Lesley Garrett
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.
– Timothy Garton Ash
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Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
– Leonard Bernstein
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Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.
– James Merrill
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States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.
– John Shimkus
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
– Faith Baldwin
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Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
– Bertolt Brecht
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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
– Marshall McLuhan
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Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.
– Preet Bharara
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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
– Pearl S. Buck
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Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
– Earl Wilson
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Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.
– Frank Luntz
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Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
– John Drinkwater
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People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.
– Dick Wolf
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
– Yoko Ono
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People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.
– Lee Grant
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People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.
– Lee Scott
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Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
– Billy Corgan
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One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.
– Georges Simenon
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
– Patrick J. Kennedy
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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.
– Jean-Francois Lyotard
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Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.
– Lois Capps
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
– Jack Welch
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Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
– Charles Sturt
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
– Michel de Montaigne
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No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.
– Joshua Foer
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My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.
– Rick Springfield
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My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.
– Tony Goldwyn
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My mother and I always had full adult communication.
– Erin Gray
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My approach is so simple every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears, or inspiration. Otherwise, why do it? It's the communication.
– John Davidson
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
– Malcolm Arnold
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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.
– Evelyn Glennie
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Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.
– Trevor Dunn
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Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
– Charles Kennedy
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Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.
– Tina Louise
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Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
– John Boyd Orr
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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
– Eugenio Montale
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Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.
– Julia Roberts
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Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
– Christian Lous Lange
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It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.
– Naomi Judd
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
– Aaron Sorkin
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It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.
– William Wiley
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It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.
– Chita Rivera
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It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.
– Lou Gerstner
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It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.
– Mark Ruffalo
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It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.
– Peter Krause
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It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.
– Edward Sapir
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It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
– Marya Mannes
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It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.
– Paul Watzlawick
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It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.
– James Levine
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In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.
– Penelope Keith
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In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.
– Erno Rubik
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In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'
– James Blunt
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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.
– Cherrie Moraga
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If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.
– Elaine MacDonald
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If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.
– Story Musgrave
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Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.
– Frank Luntz
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I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.
– Jared Diamond
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I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.
– Kevin J. Anderson
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I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
– Stephen Sondheim
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I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares.
– Benny Green
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I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
– Bill Gates
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I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.
– Thomas Gold
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I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.
– Theo de Raadt
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I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.
– Lewis Thomas
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I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.
– Andy Serkis
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I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.
– Dick Wolf
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I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.
– Jane Goodall
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I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.
– Hillary Clinton
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I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
– Maggie Gyllenhaal
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I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.
– Joshua Lederberg
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I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.
– Sarah McLachlan
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I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.
– Jarvis Cocker
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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
– Don DeLillo
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I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.
– Michael Polanyi
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I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
– Ruth St. Denis
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
– Fernando Flores
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I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.
– Judd Nelson
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I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
– Alton Brown
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I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.
– John Warnock
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I have a very open line of communication with both my children.
– Gloria Estefan
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I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.
– Matt Drudge
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I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.
– Zachary Quinto
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I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.
– Frank Ocean
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