Communication Quotes · Page 199

“Listening is two part, attention and thinking. The latter is what a lot of us don't do”

— Hadi Farnoud

I'm as keen as the next person to preserve the right to free speech.

— David Blunkett

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.

— Christina Aguilera

“He won't listen to the music, and I can't turn it off.”

— V.C. Andrews

Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

— Pauline Oliveros

Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.

— Emma McLaughlin

Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

— Esi Edugyan

“‎Never say you can't be a writer or a director, remember how well characters in your dreams said their dialogu.”

— Dipesh Nepal

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for…

— Muriel Rukeyser

It's embarrassing for me to text message back and forth with a girl. I'm asking all these questions just to continue a…

— Nick Jonas

There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer…

— M. F. K. Fisher

One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the…

— John W. Gardner

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn.…

— Greg Mortenson

Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try…

— Alexa Vega

The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2)…

— Chester Barnard

“Tell Kiara I’m sorry for what I said to her.” His speech was extremely slurred as the drug finally took him under.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Naturally, some of the reviews were negative. In speeches, Bezos later recalled getting an angry letter from an executive at a book…

— Brad Stone

I never graduated from college. While I was in a mass communication class at North Texas State University, I was on the…

— Elvis Duran

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We…

— Aristotle

I actually had some funny dialogue [ in Stardust Memories], a little piece, and we shot all day in this big ballroom.…

— Brent Spiner

“The specific use of folks as an exclusionary and inclusionary signal, designed to make the speaker sound like one of the boys…

— Susan Jacoby

I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really…

— Charlie Munger

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

— Pearl S. Buck

The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.

— Anonymous

“Praying is talking to God. Meditating is listening.”

— Christopher Moore

Backs dialogue for solving disputes and not military power and threats.

— Amr Moussa

“You hurt my heart with you pseudointellectual mild, flattering speech.”

— Rea Lidde

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

— King Krule

“Poor communication doesn't disconnet souls. It's the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.”

— Suzanne Woods Fisher

Listen to your enemys speech, because your mistakes are well known by your enemies only.

— Punkinhead Abhishek

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

— Eddie Vedder

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

— Penelope Wilton

Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.

— Andris Nelsons

She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.

— L.A. Weatherly

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

— Edmund Muskie

There is no question that food is a conversation starter.

— Jock Zonfrillo

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

— Pete Seeger

I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.

— Sara Quin