Communication Quotes

“I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.”

-- Michael Polanyi

“If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.”

-- La Monte Young

“No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.”

-- Michel de Montaigne

“If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.”

-- Story Musgrave

“I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.”

-- Stephen Sondheim

“Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.”

-- Leonard Bernstein

“Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.”

-- Steven Bochco

“Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.”

-- Sylvia Sidney

“Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.”

-- Bobby Jindal