Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.

John P. Kotter

Good communication is not just data transfer. You need to show people something that addresses their anxieties, that accepts their anger, that is credible in a very gut-level sense, and that evokes faith in the vision.

John P. Kotter

Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

Norman Douglas

How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.

Norman Cousins

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

Norbert Wiener

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

Nolan Bushnell

I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-year A.D.D.

Mike Tyson

Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.

Miguel de Cervantes

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

Miguel de Cervantes

Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.

The development part is easy. The success of an intranet is about 60 percent communication, 40 percent technology.

Edward de Bono

Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

Jonathan Lethem

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.

Joyce Carol Oates

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

Joyce Carol Oates

Perhaps the inevitable tragedy of our complex civilization is that we must be specialists in our fields - and our fields have become increasingly difficult, so that communication is nearly impossible.

Lee De Forest

I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication. [...] Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.

Laurie Helgoe

America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.

Laura Benanti

I think it's a deeper issue on the lack of communication in our culture in general. It's not abnormal to see a family out to dinner and every person is on their phone instead of communicating with each other and that's pretty sad.