Communication Quotes · Page 214

I ad lib most of my dialogue. If I did remember my lines, it would be too bad for me.

— W. C. Fields

Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

— Anonymous

Listening to something without being present is different from being there in the flesh.

— Kurt Elling

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

— Charles Spurgeon

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

— George Bernard Shaw

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

— Andy Grove

We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.

— David Tennant

I pray everyday about things that are important to me! Conversations With God! God is my best friend!

— Anonymous

If you listen to my music, you know who I'm talking to, what I'm talking about, and exactly what my message is.

— JPEGMAFIA

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

— Terence McKenna

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each…

— Clive Owen

“Identifying, developing, and connecting on these points of reference will provide you with a rich resource of information from which to engage…

— Susan C. Young

I do believe there's a hunger in this country to have a civil conversation and to listen to each other again and…

— Margaret Brennan

The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to…

— John Vianney

Relationships never work when the other person uses social networks as a way to vent instead of addressing you.

— Ronald Oliver

I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some…

— Kim Gordon

I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from…

— Corra May Harris

I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going…

— Jonathan Levine

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the…

— Madeleine Albright

Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that…

— Gilles Deleuze

“Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once…

— Anonymous

I was going to play pro baseball. That was the dream. But in my sophomore year of high school a teacher who…

— Christopher Jackson

A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more…

— Robert D. Putnam

In Washington, there are jobs that have official titles: chief of staff, campaign manager, director of communications. Then there are all these…

— Gary Cole

Assertiveness reflects mutual understanding, mutual respect & ability of right & just communication.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

“[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.”

— Clay Shirky

“Conversion of time creates disparities between developed and underdeveloped countries in the world”

— Sunday Adelaja

I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here.

— George W. Bush

Never use a verb other than ‘said’ to carry dialogue.

— Elmore Leonard

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

— Howard Hodgkin

“The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand.”

— Elena Ferrante

The past can't see you, but the future is listening.

— Terri Guillemets

Most angelic communications are felt or heard rather than seen.

— Dallin H. Oaks

“pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,”

— Anonymous

“Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.”

— Anonymous

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

— Anne Spencer

When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous.

— R. Murray Schafer

Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.

— Paulo Freire

“biases,” and I also increased my e-mail conversations”

— Rolf Dobelli

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

— Anonymous