Communication Quotes

You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.

Bruce Weber

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

Stevie Smith

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

Karen Black

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Stephen Covey

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuc

People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

Dick Wolf

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

Georges Simenon

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Jim Rohn

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Frank Ocean

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

David Bohm

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

Michael Faraday

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

Earl Wilson

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Charles Dickens

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

Neil Gaiman

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Abraham Maslow

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Mark Twain

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

Marshall McLuhan

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 Lous Lange

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot