A Quote by Erma Bombeck

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Erma Bombeck

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Erma Bombeck
American - Journalist
February 21, 1927 - April 22, 1996

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.

Frank Luntz

Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.

Scott Belsky

Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.

Vinod Khosla

The more of my readers I encounter who say, often apologetically, that they are actually listeners, the more I write for the ear rather than the eye. Small things like identifying speakers in dialogue rather than relying on paragraphing to mark the shifts.

H. W. Brands

Shortage of time is not your problem. Shortage of money is not your problem. Shortage of Connection to the Energy that creates worlds is at the heart of all sensations of shortage that you are experiencing.

Esther Hicks

I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

Frederick Lenz

Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness of division, of time and space

Frederick Lenz

Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

Benjamin Graham

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'

Jim Rohn

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

John Green

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

Haruki Murakami

Our first cultural attribute is over-communication rather than under-communication.

Ritesh Agarwal

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Germaine Greer

I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

Agatha Christie

My job is to benefit the listeners first and foremost, entertain the listeners first and foremost, and to get ratings. You can't get ratings without listeners. So I wanna do things that the listeners enjoy, even though you may hate me for it or you may love me for that.