Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Carnegie

The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Many can argue - not many converse.

Alvaro Uribe

For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications.

Anna Kendrick

I like sets that feel small. Sets that feel really big are difficult. When you're on a big set it feels like there's constant mis-communication.

Alvin Adams

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

Alva Myrdal

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

Anna Deavere Smith

Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

Andy Grove

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

Amy Klobuchar

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

Allan Bloom

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

Ann Landers

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

We can't communicate. I don't speak Japanese and he doesn't speak English.

Communication is an issue where we can improve, and if I can do anything to help, I am happy to.

Jason Bateman

I can be on a telephone call, and be emailing or texting somebody else, as well. I would imagine everyone appreciates that efficiency of communication. I see it as a huge positive.

Richard G. Scott

It is through the repeated process of feeling impressions, recording them, and obeying them that one learns to depend on the direction of the Spirit more than on communication through the other five senses.

Tariq Ramadan

Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

Tracy Morgan

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.

Booker T. Washington

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Brigham Young

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

Brian Reynolds Myers

Talking is always a good idea. There's no harm in keeping lines of communication open.

Brian Regan

When you're onstage, it's a communication technique when you make people laugh. You're communicating. You're communicating with other human beings and when they laugh you know that you're connecting. Laughing is an honest reaction and it's something that I can trust, and I love that feeling of knowing that I connected.

Barry Eisler

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

Barry Goldwater

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Edmund Muskie

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

Edmund Muskie

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

Edmund Burke

It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.

Edward Sapir

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

Edward Sapir

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

Edward R. Murrow

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

Edward Gibbon

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

Edith Wharton

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

Earl Wilson

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.