Famous Quotes & Sayings

L. Lionel Kendrick

Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle.

John D. MacDonald

The dividing line [between friends and acquaintances] is communication, I think. A friend is someone to whom you can say any jackass thing that enters your mind. With acquaintances, you are forever aware of their slightly unreal image of you, and to keep them content, you edit yourself to fit. Many marriages are between acquaintances. You can be with a person for three hours of your life and have a friend. Another will remain an acquaintance for thirty years.

Liz Miller

Developing emotional intelligence is one way to protect yourself from damaging relationships. Emotional intelligence is a science that has been studied and researched for over a decade. According to the theories, mutual respect and effective communication are key.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

Luke Harding

Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure; it has undermined the safety of the entire internet.

Louis Armstrong

It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.

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.

Joseph Parker

Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.

Joseph Priestley

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

Joshua Lederberg

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

Josh Billings

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Karl Jaspers

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

Karl Barth

A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological co-operation depends directly or indirectly on whether or not we are wiling to wait for one another, perhaps lamenting, yet smiling with tears in our eyes.

Karl Kraus

The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

Karl Kraus

Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

Oscar Wilde

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

Kanye West

Kris [Jenner] and the family, they have the power of communication. This is the number one communications company.

June Jordan

There is a man who exists as one of the most popular objects of leadership, legislation, and quasi-literature in the history of all men. . . . This man, that object of attention, attack, and vast activity, cannot make himself be heard, let alone understood. He has never been listened to. . . . That man is Black and alive in white America where the media of communication do not allow the delivery of his own voice, his own desires, his own rage.

Judy Collins

I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation

Joyce Meyer

God has gifted me in communication. He has given me a gift to be very open about myself, which seems to really help a lot of people. It's not even anything I do on purpose. It's just something I don't have a problem with. I don't care what you know about me if it will help you.

If you want a more democratic EU, communication has to be among its core tasks. There should be a legal foundation for it: Fifty years after the founding of the European project, communication belongs in the constitution.

Paul Dirac

There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.

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.

Gordon Smith

If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.