“On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.”
Saying what you mean is harder than it sounds. These quotes explore language, listening, honesty, and the art of making yourself understood — whether you are giving a speech, writing an email, or just trying to have a real conversation.
“I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.”
“On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.”
“I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.”
“The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.”
“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
“I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.”
“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.”
“Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.”
“Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting it's something far, far deeper than that.”
“There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.”
“By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.”
“Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.”
“Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.”
“Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.”
“Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.”
“Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old.”