“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”
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 five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.”
“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”
“There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.”
“Writing is a communication.”
“Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.”
“One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.”
“Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”
“Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.”
“There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.”
“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.”
“Communication is so key.”
“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.”
“It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.”
“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”
“I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.”
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”