Communication Quote by Ellen Goodman

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate when combined…

— David E. Cooper

“How long do rituals last? As long as there is a tendency of unity of mind-speech-body. When that unity is broken, rituals will not…

— Dada Bhagwan

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

— Thomas E. Mann

“The eighth ritual is the Ritual of the Spoken Word.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

— Joseph Joubert

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

— Theodor Adorno

It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the…

— David Crystal

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

— Robert Louis Stevenson