People Quotes

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

~ Charles Baudelaire

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

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

People often cover their mouths when lying. A hand on the mouth or even a touch of the lips shows you that they are lying because this unconscious body language represents a closing off of communication.

~ Travis Bradberry

There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it.

~ Howard Rheingold

Seeing other people is incredibly engaging, and that's one of the drivers that made us partner with Facebook - social communication. Not social newsfeeds, but actual face-to-face, seeing multiple avatars in a play experience, that's going to be a very big part of the future in VR.

~ Brendan Iribe

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

~ Theodore Zeldin

Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.

~ Christian Louboutin

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

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

~ Yoko Ono

If you're looking for ways of getting quick communication, maybe texting is the way to go. People can't walk these days without having one hand balancing a smart phone. If that's the way people are going to live, it is the case that something that vibrates in their hand is going to get their attention more quickly than an email.

~ Ray Tomlinson

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

~ May Sarton

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

~ A. J. Mclean

Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.

~ Benjamin E. Mays

Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.

~ Glenn Greenwald

Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

~ Conor Oberst

I've heard stories of people, even celebrities that have gone online, pretended to be someone they weren't, and conducted a 5-year friendship via e-mail. Then, they got married because they really love each other from all that communication.

~ Diane Lane

'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

~ Hill Harper

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

With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.

~ Ben Horowitz

It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communication job.

~ Ben Horowitz

Vocal rest is awesome. It is like any kind of fast. Firstly, it is a purification of speech. It made me realize how not careful I am with the things I say. It also makes you find new ways of communication and new methods to connect with people.

~ Matisyahu

For there to be communication within a couple, it is enough for there to be only one person who communicates or who really wants to communicate. Even though a couple consists of two people, if one of the people in a couple puts all their effort into moving a couple along they will move along.

~ Pedro Almodóvar

I always felt it was necessary to keep up some kind of communication with other people.

~ Norman Lloyd

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

~ Kenny G

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

Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.

~ Douglas Conant

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

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

Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.

~ Jack Dorsey

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

~ Jason Schwartzman

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

One of the things that amazes me about Twitter is the way it utterly eradicates artificial barriers to communication. Things like status, geopolitics and so on keep people from talking to one another. Those go away in Twitter. You see exchanges that would never happen anywhere else.

~ Dick Costolo

Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids.

~ Richie Havens

Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do you know what you did?' And I'd say, 'What?' And they'd go, 'I wrote these songs down for you to sing, and you sang them all in a row.' But that's the kind of communication that happens, you know.

~ Richie Havens

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

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

~ Mike Farrell