Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur C. Clarke

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

Arthur C. Clarke

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

Arthur C. Clarke

It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of the atmosphere and left to broadcast scientific information back to the Earth. A little later, manned rockets will be able to make similar flights with sufficient excess power to break the orbit and return to Earth. (1945) [Predicting communications satellites.]

bell hooks

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

bell hooks

To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.

Ban Ki-moon

You are already leaders. Your ideas, your actions and your decisions make a difference. More than any other generation, you have a voice. Social networking is changing how we interact - and it can change our world. You are in touch with peers from around the world. You understand the power of instant communication. I appeal to you to use that power for the common good, the power of communication and the power of networking.

We're hoping that this will help with communication with staff, students and very much so with the parents.

William Shakespeare

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

Donald Tsang

Through communication there will be trust. and with trust it will be possible to discuss problems of mutual interest with more tolerance and more understanding.

David Allen

Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.

John Powell

Communication works for those who work at it.

Rod McKuen

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

Alexandre Dumas

You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Islam Karimov

Major communication and energy projects will be legally drawn up within the Eurasian Economic Community summit.

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.

Brian Tracy

Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.

Brenda Ueland

everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

Jane Goodall

The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything else is almost the same: Kissing, embracing, swaggering, shaking the fist.

Jane Goodall

Our brain is almost the same as the chimps', but we have language, we have electronic communications, we've put people on the moon - we are immensely more intelligent. And yet: how come the being with the most extraordinary intellect ever is destroying its only planet?

Jane Goodall

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

James Wan

Your actors need to trust you as a director, but normally, I think you just need to have an open communication between the actors and the director. I think the director needs to really paint his or her vision to the cast and let them know the kind of mood that he or she is making. I think that's very important.

James Whistler

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

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

Blake Mycoskie

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

Billy Bob Thornton

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

Bill James

I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.