“Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.”
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.
“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
“Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.”
“The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.”
“The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.”
“I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.”
“Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.”
“I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.”
“Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”
“No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.”
“The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.”
“The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!”
“Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.”
“No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.”
“I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.”
“Writing is a communication.”
“There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.”