Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis D. Brandeis

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.

Lord Chesterfield

Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior.

Malcolm Forbes

To seduce most anyone, ask for and listen to his opinion.

Malcolm Forbes

If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.

Gene Wolfe

Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

Frank Leahy

A spoonful of humor makes the message go down easier.

Frank Luntz

The best advertising and the best communication when it comes to business is that which makes you smile, that which makes you think, that which makes you ponder.

Frank Luntz

If you just heard 90 percent of dentists recommend something, it's too statistical. Nine out of 10 says: Well, it's just virtually everyone. It leads you to think of that joke about the one dentist. But so much of communication.

Frank Luntz

Anything that causes you to doubt, to raise either objections or just concerns about it - and they always put the information right at the bottom of the screen so you can't really read it - every time you see a company do that, the ad becomes less effective. The communication becomes less effective.

Frank Luntz

"Win" is about the specific use of specific words to connect you to your employer or employees, politicians to voters - and frankly, to help people win debates, have discussions, and improve the level of communication.

Frank Luntz

Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.

Omar Bongo

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Oliver Sacks

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

O. Henry

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

Novak Djokovic

I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.

Eric S. Raymond

Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

Eric Schmidt

Mobile is the future and there's no such thing as communication overload

Epictetus

And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and when occasion requires you to talk, talk, indeed, but about no ordinary topics. Do not talk about gladiators, or horseraces, or athletes, or things to eat or drink - topics that arise on all occasions; but above all, do not talk about people, either blaming, or praising, or comparing them.

Emily Dickinson

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

Hidetoshi Nakata

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

Hideki Tojo

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.

Heraclitus

There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.

Henry Cuellar

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.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Erik Qualman

You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

Eric Thomas

Las Vegas doesn't allow ( tourism ) to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring town that no one is willing to come to. ( But, ) we can't let tourism be the reason for not taking action. Accountability is not there. As a community we can be different. We don't have to be what our visitors are. We can work at policies that will make us a vibrant healthy resort community.

Ayn Rand

She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.

Aubrey Beardsley

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

Benjamin Banneker

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Benjamin Disraeli

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.