Communication Quotes
If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning and come home in the evening and have nothing to say.
You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.
We're all Christ and we're all Hitler. We are trying to make Christ's message contemporary. We want Christ to win. What would he have done if he had advertisements, T.V., records, films and newspapers? The miracle today is communication. So Let's use it.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Pantomime has always been the universal means of communication. It existed as the universal tool long before language was born. Pantomime serves well where languages are in the conflict of a common ignorance.
Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.
We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.
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.
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