Communication Quotes

Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones out together as once we pulled out our cigarette packets. But probably it’s because we are easily bored.

~ Neil Gaiman

What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship.

~ Lorin Morgan-Richards

Everybody seemed to like Skype except him, Tony thought, closing his office door then settling in front of his screen. His dislike was both personal and professional. Everybody looked weird on Skype. Everyone, frankly, looked like a potential patient. There was something very unsettling about that fish-eyed stare. Even people he liked looked deranged. From a professional perspective, the trouble was you could never see enough of the person you were in conversation with to gauge their body language. They might be giving off all sort of signals you’d be aware of in what his boss had taken to calling “F2F encounters,” but the Skype interface could hide a multitude of clues.

~ Val Mcdermid

Communication is now often experienced as a superhuman phenomenon that towers above individuals. A new generation has come of age with a reduced expectation of what a person can be, and of who each person might become.

~ Jaron Lanier

The power of the metaphor is that in a single flash the entire idea is revealed.

~ G.r. Gopinath

You can LOBBY anyone. It is the great equalizer. – Chief of Staff Russell Jackson

~ Madam Secretary

Book publishers should change the communication from best sellers to the best impacts.What matters is the impact not the sold copies.

~ Kamil Toume

Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.

~ Ken Liu

Lack of communication can drive a spike between two people wider than any physical distance.

~ Mark W. Boyer

The magic moment in life is when your soul just connects with another soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

There are a lot of conventions, a vocabulary and a set of practices and assumptions that underlie most professional book design. Since design is important to the eventual success of your book whether you attempt to do it yourself or hire it out, it pays to know something about those conventions and assumptions. After all, we don’t want anything getting in the way of your communication with your readers. You’ve got a message for them, a story to tell, or ideas to spread. That’s what’s important.

~ Joel Friedlander

Communication can be sent or received through verbal or nonverbal cues.

~ Asa Don Brown

Communication is the lifeblood of an organization.

~ Asa Don Brown

CS Lewis's humor supported his exposition but never dominated or diminished it.

~ Greg Cootsona

Intrapersonal communication is a reflection of our daily messages.

~ Asa Don Brown

Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying he'd uttered during the day, taking simple-hearted pleasure in some of his best hits.

~ Harold Holzer

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried New York everywhere in terms of the city's predominant influence.

~ Harold Holzer

Protests can sometimes, necessarily, simplify things.

~ Madam Secretary

I have a couple of favorite relatives, but because they're so far away I tend to ignore them-even though they have mailboxes, email addresses and telephone numbers. Today, I'll get back in touch.

~ Eileen & Jerry Spinelli

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

~ Stephen R. Covey

To speak much is one thing, to speak to the point another!

~ Sophocles

A key to healthy problem solving is good communication.

~ Asa Don Brown

Don’t talk to people you don’t want to talk to, and don’t talk about stuff you don’t want to talk about.

~ Austin Kleon

Always best to start with violence and attempt communication second. People reacted more favorably when they knew you would snuff a few lives to get what you wanted... or for no reason whatsoever.

~ Michael R. Fletcher

Relationships are an art form created by two or more individuals who have similar or complementary visions, passions, and ambitions.

~ Asa Don Brown

Unhealthy relationships are most commonly lacking in the most essential of ingredient: healthy communication.

~ Asa Don Brown

Political thought is representative. I form an opinion by considering a given issue from different viewpoints, by making present to my mind the standpoints of those who are absent; that is, I represent them.… The more people's standpoints I have present in my mind while I am pondering a given issue, and the better I can imagine how I would feel and think if I were in their place, the stronger will be my capacity for representative thinking and the more valid my final conclusions, my opinion.

~ Hannah Arendt

J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.

~ Philip Zaleski

All canonical writing possesses the quality of making you feel strangeness at home.

~ Harold Bloom

To communicate is truly a gift. It is a wondrous ability of your amazing human body, the ability that allows us to connect with other humans to give meaning to our lives. I will argue that it is what makes us human.

~ Kathleen Depperschmidt

...if the content of your speech is not authentic, talking or texting on a device doesn't mean you're communicating with another person.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

~ Harold Bloom

Communication is not about the sender or receiver, it's about the sending. And that's done with language.

~ Richard O'barry

Poetry of World War I, at least in its lyrical mode, was itself the last flowering of the Age of Innocence that preceded the war, that the horrors of the trenches sparked the final blossoming, as friction gives rise to fire; that the daily nightmare unfolding before the soldiers sharpened their sense of beauty, prophecy, and mission.

~ Philip Zaleski

Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.

~ George F. Will

If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence.

~ Haruki Murakami

There were other things,too, to ask him. Always she tries to be less forward. Always she tried to find the right thing to say and didn't trust the etiquette pendulum swinging in her head, so she simply said nothing, which was perceived either as painful shyness of haughtiness. Dasha never had that problem. She just said the first thing that came into her head. Tatiana knew she needed to rust her inner voice more. It was certainly loud enough

~ Paullina Simons

Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive.

~ Theodor W. Adorno