Communication Quotes · Page 221

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

— Jay-Z

“One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.”

— The Dragon King of Beijing

The best time to end your speech is when you feel the listening is lessening.

— Vikrant Parsai

I don't say I love you, out of habit or just for conversation when I say it I really mean it.

— Anonymous

“I don't see why I have to when he doesn't. Then listen.”

— Harper Lee

“The Four Virtues--virtue, demeanor, speech, and work.”

— Lisa See

I want to bring meaningful conversations to the table, and I want to shake some things up.

— Andy Mineo

Profanity is the crutch of a conversational cripple. . .

— Rick Sutter

“We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic.”

— Tahir Shah

My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to…

— John Davidson

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

— Dennis Miller

We have seen a growing mismatch between the command of media communication shown by the most talented politicians, and the halting, uneven…

— Tom Bentley

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are…

— Richard Powers

“Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the…

— Ann Beattie

Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of…

— Robert M. Pirsig

I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a…

— Kehinde Wiley

Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation.…

— Geoffrey Rush

“So many television marriages - that playing out of lives against a background of the tube. Instead of two lives filing the…

— Lois Wyse

“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the…

— Northrop Frye

If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will…

— Tom Peters

I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they…

— Jean Genet

“Illness especially, may be a blessed forerunner of the individual’s conversion. Not only does it prevent him from realizing his desires; it…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.

— Eoin Colfer

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

— Anonymous

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

All it took was one conversation to know that Reebok was the right home for our team.

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

— Larry the Cable Guy

We need to find ways to communicate with each other.

— Andrew Breitbart

“What good is it to be a teenager if no one will listen to anything you say?”

— K.A. Holt

Having a conversation with some people is like a little vacation for your brain.

— Linda Poindexter

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

— Peter Drucker

“The strategic inflection point is the time to wake up an listen”

— Andrew S. Grove

I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.

— Taylor Sheridan

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

— Blaise Pascal

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

— David Malouf

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

— Margaret Mead

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

— Juliana Hatfield