Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jimmy Carter

It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.

John C. Malone

It will allow us to control all the communication needs of a household with one device.

John C. Maxwell

COMMUNICATION: If I had to pick a first rule of communication-the one practice above all others that opens the door to connecting with others-it would be to look for common ground. Too often people see communication as the process of transmitting massive amounts of information to other people. But that's the wrong picture. Communication is a journey. The more that people have in common, the better the chance that they can take that journey together.

The law obliges those operating communication networks to keep a record of all content received by a user in the last 60 days. In practice, this is rarely enforced.

David Day

The (intra-agency) communication was a thing to work on. Not everybody has the same radio frequencies to use and that is one of the things were are going to take a look at.

The Internet represents a global outreach of communication, and that this document represents the first incredible statement of democracy and liberty in the world is a great -- it's ironic, but it's also a great, momentous convergence of two things happening,

Gordon Strachan

The lines of communication have been down for a while now, to be honest,

Drew Rosenhaus

The line of communication is there. It's still a possibility. But at this point we're going to talk to some other teams and take some visits and go from there. I expect a lot of interest in Justin.

Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

James Thurber

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

James Murdoch

Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.

James Merrill

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

James Madison

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

James Madison

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

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.

All of our Web-based usage has been about asynchronous communication. We will move by the end of this year to a concurrent model. The next logical step is to deal with voice communication.

Edward T. Hall

The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.

Hermann Hesse

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

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.

Khalil Gibran

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

Jonathan Sacks

Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask.

Narendra Modi

Space may seem distant, but is an integral part of our daily life. It drives our modern communication and connects even the remotest family to the ordinary. India's space programme is a perfect example of our vision of Scale, Speed and Skill.

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.