Communication Quotes · Page 265

Interrupting people mid-sentence is my worst habit. I cant help myself. I get overexcited in the middle of a conversation and I…

— Mary McCartney

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good…

— Alan Lightman

“my idea of good company.. is the company of clever, well-informed people. who have a great deal of conversation.”

— Jane Austen

To earn a fool respect, you can't try to be an intellectual with them, you have to learn to speak their type…

— Glen Rambharack

The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and…

— Joss Whedon

We're already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which…

— Elon Musk

There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind…

— Bill de Blasio

There are systemic, painful problems of globalization and de-industrialization that cannot be solved with a phone call or a tweet or an…

— David Remnick

I go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there…

— Simon Sinek

I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn…

— Iris Murdoch

“ Listen for somebody trying to talk to you… (Silence) This from that very pit of night, naked in the wasteland, the…

— Iain M. Banks

“You cannot, having never prayed before, start with eighteen hours of dialogue and prayer with God continuously like this while you do…

— Anthony Bloom

The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need…

— Mark Parker

In today's world, everyone's so clued into their iPhones, and communication is going by the wayside as far as one-on-one is concerned.…

— Phyllis Smith

Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation…

— Barry Lopez

The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip…

— Ruth Asawa

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

— Adlai Stevenson

When I had those injuries in college, I had all of these conversations with coaches about protecting myself. It was a constant…

— Taysom Hill

With the EP 'Listen,' I just wanted to bring back a feeling of appreciation for our women in our community. That feeling…

— Algee Smith

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

— Jonathan Edwards

Allow the information to tell you how it wants to be displayed. As architecture is ‘frozen music’, information architecture is ‘frozen conversation’.…

— Richard Saul Wurman

“There could be no real dialogue between those who still thought that time was on their side and those who realized that…

— Edward St. Aubyn

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

— Plato

We all want at renewal of our dialogue and restoration of our relations with Turkey in the interests of Russian and Turkish…

— Vladimir Putin

If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put…

— Pope Innocent III

[...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people.

— Thein Sein

Jon Davis of Korn and Frank Mullen of Suffocation are one of my favorite bands and from that moment, we started a…

— Mitch Lucker

“In the inconceivably vast and humbling unknown called "everything", is a supreme inter-communication called, spirituality.”

— Bryant McGill

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

— Thomas Boswell

It's a rare political speech that, two years after it is delivered, can still be quoted verbatim around the world.

— Cathy Newman

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a…

— Fernando Pessoa

And it's not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don't want to, I'm…

— Cinda Williams Chima

Interaction goes smoothly when connections are established with time and energy with genuine intentions.

— Kishore Bansal

When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but…

— Joyce Meyer

Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and…

— Keke Palmer

Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when…

— Earl Sweatshirt

The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.

— Nazanin Boniadi

Fake your way through a conversation, tell her all the things you wish were true. Maybe you're the voice of a generation…

— Mike Posner

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.

— Anonymous