Communication Quotes

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.
– Frank Luntz
I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.
– Novak Djokovic
I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.
– Mike Davidson
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
– Benjamin F. Wade
I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.
– Lee Child
I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
– P. J. Harvey
I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
– Mac Davis
I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.
– Adam Oates
I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
– Laura Linney
I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
– Jeanette Winterson
I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
– Omar Bongo
I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
– Joichi Ito
However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.
– Hideki Tojo
Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.
– Ernst Toller
God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.
– Nicolas Malebranche
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
– Virginia Satir
Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.
– Paulo Coelho
Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.
– Joe Slovo
Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.
– Marilyn vos Savant
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
– David Bohm
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
– Rollo May
Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.
– Anne Archer
Communication is so key.
– Ashley Tisdale
Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.
– Steve Buscemi
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.
– Brian Tracy
Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.
– Thor Heyerdahl
Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.
– Marc Garneau
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
– George Carlin
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.
– Tony Conrad
But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.
– Michael Tilson Thomas
But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.
– Armistead Maupin
But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.
– Jesse James Garrett
But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.
– Roger Sessions
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
– Steven Bochco
Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.
– Mike Mills
Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
– Rowan D. Williams
As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.
– Alexander Kluge
As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.
– Jo Ann Davis
As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
– Bobby Jindal
As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.
– Jim Evans
Art must unquestionably have a social value that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.
– Rockwell Kent
Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.
– Dick Morris
Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
– Emma Thompson
Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.
– Jaron Lanier
And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.
– Marc Andreessen
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.
– Stevie Smith
After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.
– Jim Barksdale
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
– Marcel Proust
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
– Robert Anton Wilson
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
– Mark Twain
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
– James Madison
A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
– Matthew Lesko
Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind. Since that time I have always proclaimed that poetry is communication, in the exact sense of that word.
– Vicente Aleixandre
I explained the American situation. I promised to pass on the substance of her communication to Washington as soon as possible. I did that. Well, certainly, the issue was difficult and painful. The relationship between Mrs. Tanaka and me and our two governments was difficult, but it was not painful.
– Howard Baker
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
– Dave Barry
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
– Benjamin Banneker
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
– William Ellery Channing
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
– Stephen Covey
We just kind of lost our spiritual togetherness and the confidence that we had each other. There was some things going on that seperated band members more than just musically. We didn't live together any more. It was just like breaking up. It wasn't pretty. Everything just kind of fell apart and we just lost our communication with each other.
– Michael Davis
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
– John Dewey
The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.
– Daniel W. Davenport
Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a very old form of graphic communication. It began with the hieroglyphics in Egypt, it first appeared in a recognizable form in the Medieval times as copper plates produced by the Catholic church to tell morality stories.
– Will Eisner
Why should a craftsman not make use of all his tools if they will promote a greater communication and expressiveness? This is not to deny that beautiful things can be fashioned out of very modest means, but what possible objection can there be towards an artist trying to be more resourceful?
– Don Ellis
The spaceship put in orbit, and the carrier-rocket separated, weightlessness set in. At first the sensation was to some extent unusual, but I soon adapted myself... I maintained continuous communication with Earth on different channels by telephone and telegraph.
– Yuri Gagarin
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
– Bill Gates
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
– Harold S. Geneen
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
– Alan Greenspan
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires.
– Elizabeth Hardwick
I was always curious about-not actors-but I was always enthralled by the communication industry. TV, movie, film-all that stuff.
– Richard Hatch
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
– James C. Humes
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
– Eugene Ionesco
A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other modern means of communication can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.
– Tommy Lasorda
Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.
– Robert A. Lutz
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.
– Karl Marx
Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.
– Paul Meyer
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
– Henry Miller
As a result of these new conditions, the States, cities, and towns were welded together, and population and prosperity increased rapidly in those inland sections which had formerly languished because they had no means of easy and rapid communication.
– John Moody
The Internet holds immense potential as a marketing tool. As an interactive medium that reaches around the world, it promises an interpersonalization of advertising. As mass communication becomes mass-interpersonal communication, marketing efforts become more efficient, effective, and extensive.
– Jef I. Richards
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
– Leo C. Rosten
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
– Harry S. Truman
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
– Simone Weil
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
– Theodore H. White
It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time…The youth gazed with great delight upon the beautiful face until he caught the maiden’s eye…The mysterious communication that is established across a house between two entire strangers, by this means moves all the springs of wonder.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If then the power of speech is as great as any that can be named,—if the origin of language is by many philosophers considered nothing short of divine—if by means of words the secrets of the heart are brought to light, pain of soul is relieved, hidden grief is carried off, sympathy conveyed, experience recorded, and wisdom perpetuated,—if by great authors the many are drawn up into unity, national character is fixed, a people speaks, the past and the future, the East and the West are brought into communication with each other,—if such men are, in a word, the spokesmen and the prophets of the human family—it will not answer to make light of Literature or to neglect its study: rather we may be sure that, in proportion as we master it in whatever language, and imbibe its spirit, we shall ourselves become in our own measure the ministers of like benefits to others—be they many or few, be they in the obscurer or the more distinguished walks of life—who are united to us by social ties, and are within the sphere of our personal influence.
– John Henry Cardinal Newman
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
– Peter F. Drucker
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.
– Robert Delaunay
There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.
– Frank Luntz
That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
– Steven Morrissey
So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.
– Michael K. Powell
My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.
– Guy Fieri
My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.
– Jada Pinkett Smith
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
– Wole Soyinka
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
– Thom Mayne
And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?
– Emma Thompson