Quotes on Communication

In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the function of literature is communication between things that are different simply because they are different, not blunting but even sharpening the differences between them, following the true bent of written language.

Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Give me the gift of a listening heart.

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions, and in the profession and practice dictated by them. He has an equal property in the free use of his faculties and free choice of the objects on which to employ them. In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.

Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.