Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mikhail Gorbachev

It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.

Mikhail Gorbachev

New approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking of a transition toward a new civilization. No one knows what it will be like. What is important is to orient in that direction... I am convinced that a new civilization will inevitably take on certain features that are characteristic of, or inherent in, the socialist ideal.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The time has come to develop integrated global policies.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

Naomi Klein

Communication is my thing.

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.

R. D. Laing

When I go beyond a certain range it's outside of my direct horizon therefore I've got to rely on the writings and personal communications given to me by other people that I know.... I've got to try to piece together some tentative information picture of what the whole thing is like, but I'm aware that it becomes more and more speculative as it becomes more and more second, third, fourth hand. And this applies to absolutely everyone.

R. Buckminster Fuller

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.

Oren Arnold

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication.

Oprah Winfrey

Great communication begins with connection.

Oliver Evans

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

Margaret Atwood

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

Kenny G

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Kenny Loggins

My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we never got to the core of anything.

Ken Robinson

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

Margaret Chase Smith

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

Mark Twain

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

Mark Twain

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Mark Twain

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

Paul Rand

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

Leon Trotsky

All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution...

Laurence Meyer

There are broader and narrower definitions of the new economy. The narrow version defines the new economy in terms of two principal developments: first, an increase in the economy's maximum sustainable growth rate and, second, the spread and increasing importance of information and communications technology.

Laurence Meyer

I accept the proposition that there has been a significant improvement in underlying productivity growth in the United States, that it is very closely tied to improvements in information and communications technology, and that it is likely to spread around the world. But I resist the new economy label because it seems to encourage a disrespect for the old rules that could seriously undermine our success in taking advantage of the new opportunities.

Laurence J. Peter

The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world

Larry Page

I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.