Communication Quote by Roman Jakobson

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above…

— Roman Jakobson

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

— Igor Stravinsky

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener…

— M. Scott Peck

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

— Richard Masur

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

— John C. Maxwell

Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.

— MC Yogi

Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

— John Dewey

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

— Alan Lightman

You can not hear what you do not understand.

— W. Edwards Deming

Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join…

— L. Sprague de Camp

Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and…

— Edward Hirsch