Communication Quotes · Page 85

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

— Clay Shirky

I pray for salvation, pray for a sweet conversation, the problems not with you, it's without you

— Secondhand Serenade

Everytime I read are old conversation I realize how close we use to be.

— Anonymous

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

— John Constable

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

— Maurice Chevalier

When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.

— Anthony de Mello

There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.

— Frederick William Faber

People who listen to NPR are forever thanking the hosts for 'sharing,' or 'initiating a dialogue,' or 'taking the time to explain…

— Tucker Carlson

I despise this weakness in myself--this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action...

— Stef Penney

My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not…

— Frances McDormand

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

— Oliver Herford

Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of…

— John Dewey

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be…

— Gene Fowler

“Lord, teach me to listen. The times are noisy and my ears are weary with the thousand raucous sounds which continuously assault…

— A.W. Tozer

I think that the most important thing for me is, how is the character that I would be reading for? Is it…

— Julia Garner

I'm not on Twitter for abuse. I don't think anyone's gotten on Twitter so that they can be abused, but people do…

— Anika Noni Rose

All we ever want is a story, that's all you want. So, you give a fairly long speech to somebody to tell…

— Brenda Fricker

Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the…

— Salman Rushdie

“I used to think freedom was freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of conscience. But freedom is the whole life…

— Vasily Grossman

Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion.…

— Anonymous

If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Sometimes he thought about approaching her, walking up to her like a normal human being and striking up a conversation. Hello. How…

— Anastasia Wilde

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Are you listening or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?”

— Robert Montgomery

“She’d practically been able to see the bam, boom, pow! in dialogue bubbles next to the guy.”

— Ruby Lionsdrake

If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.

— Adyashanti

“As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.”

— Albert Camus

“The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“You can talk to someone who wants to have a conversation, not an argument”

— Poornima

A marriage doesn't look after itself - it needs attention, communication, nurturing and honesty.

— Coleen Nolan

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

— Anonymous

Pray, pray, pray & then pray some more. I love my conversations with God.

— Anonymous

I Tried to convince you different But you didnt listen or try to envision

— Yate

Is anybody out there? Is anybody listening? Does anybody really know? If its the end of our beginning

— Anonymous

“If you can't listen to people, they hardly will follow you.”

— Alin Sav

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

— Stanley Bing

I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

— Deborah Meier