Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Sapir

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

Edward R. Murrow

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

Edward Snowden

The internet exchange is sort of the core points where all of the international cables come together, where all of the internet service providers come together, and they trade lines with each other. These are priority one targets for any sort of espionage agency, because they provide access to so many people's communications.

Edward Snowden

An investigation found the specific people who authorized the warrantless wiretapping of millions and millions of communications, which per count would have resulted in the longest sentences in world history, and our highest official simply demanded the investigation be halted. Who "can" be brought up on charges is immaterial when the rule of law is not respected. Laws are meant for you, not for them.

Edward Snowden

To do that, the NSA specifically targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyzes them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest, most efficient and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government, or someone that they suspect of terrorism, they are collecting YOUR communications to do so.

We have a shortage of communication with the district.

Anna Akhmatova

The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.

Ann Voskamp

Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.

Albert Bandura

This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting rooms electronically. Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting-rooms electronically.

Annie Leibovitz

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

Annie Lennox

Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

Clay Shirky

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

D. H. Lawrence

He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.

Danny Glover

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play

Daniel D. Palmer

Displacement of any part of the skeletal frame may press against nerves, which are the channels of communication, intensifying or decreasing their carrying capacity, creating either too much or not enough functionating, an aberration known as disease. The nature of the affection depends upon the shape of the bone, the amount of pressure, age of patient, character of nerves impinged upon and the individual makeup.

David Foster Wallace

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

David Foster Wallace

Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient.

David Cronenberg

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

Don Herold

Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.

Douglas Conant

Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.

Dale Carnegie

Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.

Constantin Stanislavski

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

Damien Hirst

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

E. B. White

As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

E. B. White

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

E. B. White

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

E. B. White

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

Douglas Leone

In a downturn, aggressive PR and communications strategy is key.

Douglas Hofstadter

The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.

Andre Gide

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Anant Agarwal

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

Alvin Toffler

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.

Anne Carson

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.