Communication Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image ““I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules”” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication
Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“is speech a subject's very constitution and assembly, which then makes experience possible.” — Erin Moure Copy Share Image
“I dislike being held to a set of rules for no reason other than to create the impression of order, whether it exists or… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“A good speech is like a miniskirt--long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners.” — Naa Shalman Copy Share Image
“It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“It was a mere matter of seeing common things together and exchanging common speech concerning them, but each was so strongly conscious of the… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“There is great power in our words, because they are thoughts to which we have given additional energy by speaking them aloud so another… — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
“If there are to be rules, they must be articulable and defensible, like etiquette. I do not do anything simply because my family did… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
“a masterly performance. Fulsome and vapid, laden with insincere warmth and hidden barbs, his introductory speech had nevertheless left no legitimate grounds for complaint.” — Michael Dibdin Copy Share Image
“Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson 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
