262 private quotes tagged communication

“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.”— Michel de Montaigne

“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”— T. S. Eliot

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”— George Bernard Shaw

“Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.”— Rebecca West

“Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.”— Rowan D. Williams

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”— J. B. Priestley

“The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.”— Edward R. Murrow

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

“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

“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

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

“He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.”— Baltasar Gracian

“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

“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

“Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.”— Bertolt Brecht

“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

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

“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.”— Marcel Proust

“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