Quotes on Communication

Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

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.

I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development workers? And we asked the development workers, what are your reservations about religious leaders? It turns out that most of the problems are not really problems at all, but rather misunderstandings, misconceptions, and mis-communications.

Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.

Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.