Communication Quotes · Page 255

“When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we…

— Sharon Salzberg

I hope to get the general public listening, the ones curious to see the woman who sat in the tree for two…

— Julia Butterfly Hill

The hardest thing about being famous is that ... in a conversation everybody's agreeing with what you're saying. ... You need people…

— Robert De Niro

“Delusional group-think can help us change into what we cannot deceive ourselves into becoming on our own”

— Ptera Hunter

There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis…

— Dalai Lama

The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort…

— Anatol Rapoport

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism…

— Abba Eban

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

— P. J. O'Rourke

Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations…

— David Hume

Sometimes, I remember, for action continuity or to get all warmed up for an action scene before giving a close-up or saying…

— Sidharth Malhotra

It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his…

— Phillips Brooks

The retention of the power to punish for contempt for acts of speech alone, which do not directly interfere with the administration…

— Prashant Bhushan

Powerful people do not have good listening skills. They hate to listen. They succeed by getting good at faking it ... If…

— Penelope Trunk

We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars.…

— Thomas Berry

We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't…

— Richard Dawkins

Keep healthy way of communicaton. You can see it as a challenge or as a learning opportunity. You get to hear other…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

'The Conversation' was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and…

— Petra Haden

To learn a thing in life and through doing is much more developing, cultivating, and strengthening than to learn it merely through…

— Friedrich Frobel

While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their…

— Mo Rocca

Meaning is made in conversation, reality is created in communication, and knowledge is generated through social interaction… Language is the vehicle through…

— Diana Whitney

Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.

— Thalia

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of…

— Anna Quindlen

It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

— Gustave Flaubert

I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.

— Rachele Brooke Smith

It's an epidemic. Instead of socialising and having proper conversations, we're staring at pictures of models in bikinis and wondering how they…

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

“Bill Bryson's is a synthesizing intellect, capable of translating myriad data into a digestible narrative – rare currency in an increasingly atomized society.”

— Allen Guy Wilcox

As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism…

— Tavi Gevinson

You go to your best friends wedding and give a dirty speech about thier relationship but it turns out your at an…

— Mayla

Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking…

— Peter Farb

If you are making policies through speeches that are contradicting some of the policy development your colleagues are embarked on, you are…

— Dominic Grieve

I think unless we have an honest conversation about race and identity in this country, we're never going to get anywhere.

— Justin Simien

Diplomacy is not merely talking somebody into something; it's talking to somebody from a position of strength. You put your power on…

— Daniel Fried

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

— Stan Getz

There are some of us who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity…

— Aldo Leopold

“The pure force of life are in communication with each other, independently of us, and then we cannot hide who we are.”

— Paulo Coelho

“When men cannot communicate their thoughts to each other, simply because of difference of language, all the similarity of their common human…

— Augustine of Hippo

“He mentioned the connection between us. He identified with me. These are the things that many people want to hear, that most…

— Rasmenia Massoud

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.

— Eric Schlosser

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

— Aneurin Bevan

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

— Jane Austen