Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marvin J. Ashton

Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.

Marvin J. Ashton

A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to measure up. Our own patience is developed when we are patient with others.

Mark Twain

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

Nicholas Sparks

People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.

John Green

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.

Patti Smith

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

Patti Smith

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.

Pat Summitt

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

P. J. O'Rourke

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

Marya Mannes

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

Marya Mannes

It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Martha Beck

Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind of imprisonment we can inflict on fellow humans, and if you are forced to keep silent about some dark secret, you live in solitary confinement. Without the bridge of communication connecting you to other human beings, you can’t share your burdens, can’t receive comfort, can’t confirm that you still belong. Silence is the abyss that separates you from hope.

Marshall McLuhan

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener

Marshall McLuhan

The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.

Marshall McLuhan

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

Oswald Chambers

You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.

Michel de Montaigne

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Michel de Montaigne

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Michel de Montaigne

Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.

Michel de Montaigne

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

Michel de Montaigne

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Michel de Montaigne

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

Marianne Williamson

I feel that the term "new age" is used by basically hostile media to diminish and marginalize a conversation that is very significant. It's held in place by journalists who are constantly looking for hooks and sound bites to keep them from having to make the effort of a deeper understanding and a more profound level of communication with the public.

Marianne Williamson

Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Frank Ocean

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.

Christian Lous Lange

Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.

Christian Lous Lange

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

Christian Louboutin

Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.

Germaine Greer

We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

George Wald

I can conceive of no nightmare so terrifying as establishing communication with a so-called superior (or, if you wish, advanced) technology in outer space.