Communication Quote by Neil Postman Download Open image ““Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.”” — Neil Postman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Reading Writing
“...because writing is fundamentally an act of reaching out from self to other. It is a reminder that we are not alone in the… — Alicia Rasley Copy Share Image
I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.” — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“Writing is a profession that requires being alone. Just alone. You talk, laugh, get pissed off, get scared, be happy, think, imagine, shout, and… — Alexina Benavidez Copy Share Image
“Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
“If you are writing and no-one reads it, are you a writer, or you just writing?” — Matt Drabble Copy Share Image
“Writing to me is a way to get your feelings and ideas out. It is something everybody is capable of.” — Katherine Powers Copy Share Image
“to whom will the technology give greater power and freedom? And whose power and freedom will be reduced by it?” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“There being no international copyright laws, “pirated” editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“the world we live in is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact, whether actual or imagined, that will… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman 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