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Russell Baker The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.
J. G. Ballard The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
Erma Bombeck It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
Pearl Buck Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
Miguel de Cervantes Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as
John Henry Newman If then the power of speech is as great as any that can be named,??”if the origin of language is by many philosophers considered nothing short of divine??”if by means of words the secrets of the heart are brought to light, pain of soul is relieved, hidden gri
Chuang Tzu A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
Leo C. Rosten Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Unknown The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said.
L. Ron Hubbard ART is a word which summarizes THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.
Peter Drucker The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Pearl Buck Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
Henry David Thoreau Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
Bill Cosby Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy.
Erma Bombeck It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Earl Warren The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a grave danger to the privacy of the individual.
Dave Barry The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Joseph Wood Krutch A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.
William Ellery Channing 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.
Allen Ginsberg Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.
John Dewey There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
Virginia Satir Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family.
Marya Mannes It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
Marya Mannes It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
W, Willard Wirtz Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.
Nan Fairbrother It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time???The youth gazed with great delight upon the beautiful face until he caught the maiden???s eye???The mysterious communication that is established across a hous
Charles Scribner, Jr. Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language.
Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.
Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea.
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.
"From this strange confusion grows a perverse communication" -- Siouxsie
"Sir, I am fluent in six million forms of communication." - C-3PO
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

 

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