Communication Quote by Greg Carlson Download Open image ““The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.”” — Greg Carlson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Criticism Language Leadership
“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and over-simplifies. Hopefully,” — Daniel M. Ingram Copy Share Image
“I'm amazed with language, it's so complex, yet so simple...everything can be influenced by it, and everything can influence it.” — Kimberly Loskov Copy Share Image
“As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.” — Lily King Copy Share Image
“Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.” — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and oversimplifies.” — Daniel M. Ingram Copy Share Image
“Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.” — Joan Barfoot Copy Share Image
“Language isn't about the words. It's about the transfer of meaning.” — Thea van Diepen Copy Share Image
“You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“Words in the head are sticky and social creatures – when you finally pull one out, you're liable to get lots of bits of… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“Robbed of a rapt audience, advertisers know that influencing how you spend what to do while depends on having some control over how you… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“Every question was also an opportunity to create an impression that would guide how all subsequent answers to questions got interpreted.” — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“Teaching is the art of serendipity. Each of us has the experience of finding out that something we intended as only the most casual… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“Learning to be aware of what you unconsciously know may depend on a line of focused effort and specialized knowledge and even some measure… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.” — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“You might think of the barrier between fiction and reality as being a bit like a blood-brain barrier, which allows only some kinds of… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“When the marketplace became crowded with scores of similar products that mostly did what they were supposed to do, companies focused less on selling… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image