Communication Quotes
“It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.”
-- Oliver Evans
“Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.”
-- Tina Louise
“It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.”
-- James Levine
“There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.”
-- Frank Luntz
“One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.”
-- Georges Simenon
“We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.”
-- Jacques Lacan
“We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.”
-- Henry Cuellar
“The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.”
-- Sydney J. Harris
“The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.”
-- William Graham Sumner
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
-- George Bernard Shaw
“By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.”
-- Ralph Ellison
“If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.”
-- Elaine MacDonald
“Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.”
-- Lao Tzu
“During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.”
-- David Bohm
“The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.”
-- Edward R. Murrow