262 private quotes tagged communication

“Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.”— Anne Archer

“To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.”— Cliff Shaw

“If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.”— Richard Rosen

“Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.”— Sylvia Sidney

“It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.”— Oliver 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

“In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.”— Cherrie Moraga

“The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.”— Warren Rudman

“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

“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

“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

“The art of communication is the language of leadership.”— James Humes

“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 belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.”— Jada Pinkett Smith

“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

“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

“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

“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”— Charles Dickens

“Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.”— Emma Thompson

“Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.”— Jim Rohn

“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.”— Peter Drucker

“Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”— Walt Disney

“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”— Epictetus

“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

“Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”— David Herbert Lawrence