Communication Quotes · Page 96

I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.

— Sara Quin

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

— Pete Seeger

There is no question that food is a conversation starter.

— Jock Zonfrillo

Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.

— Andris Nelsons

She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.

— L.A. Weatherly

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

— Edmund Muskie

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

— Penelope Wilton

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

— Eddie Vedder

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the…

— John Green

“The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.”

— Lyle W. Dorsett

We have to learn. We have to listen to where people are. We have to listen to where the Spirit is working…

— Blase J. Cupich

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

— Herman Melville

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

— Marina Abramovic

Hopefully, at the end of all this, my music is going to be used as a tool to help people have meaningful…

— Andy Mineo

Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.

— Rick Yancey

From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

— Eddie Murphy

“The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging…

— John Steinbeck

Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform…

— Marina Abramovic

I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want.…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“God, what had we done? It didn't really matter. Piper had been the kind of friend with whom I didn't have to…

— Jodi Picoult

“Whether you master the art of asking questions to become a skilled communicator, start conversations, or to connect in a more meaningful…

— Susan C. Young

“I realized,” he said, “that they were building a system whose goal was the elimination of all privacy, globally. To make it…

— Glenn Greenwald

It seemed to me at an early age that all human communication - whether it's TV, movies, or books - begins with…

— Robert R. McCammon

Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song lyrics. To make room for all of it in his…

— Jonathan Tropper

“Poor communication doesn't disconnet souls. It's the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.”

— Suzanne Woods Fisher

Listen to your enemys speech, because your mistakes are well known by your enemies only.

— Punkinhead Abhishek

Backs dialogue for solving disputes and not military power and threats.

— Amr Moussa

“You hurt my heart with you pseudointellectual mild, flattering speech.”

— Rea Lidde

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

— King Krule

“Praying is talking to God. Meditating is listening.”

— Christopher Moore

Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

— Esi Edugyan

The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.

— Anonymous

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

— Pearl S. Buck

Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.

— Emma McLaughlin

Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

— Pauline Oliveros

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.

— Christina Aguilera

“He won't listen to the music, and I can't turn it off.”

— V.C. Andrews

I'm as keen as the next person to preserve the right to free speech.

— David Blunkett

After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.

— Patrick O'Brian