Top 1200 Language And Communication Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

Real communication is impossible without listening.

Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.

Mobile is the future, and there's no such thing as communication overload.

The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language.

The beginning to correcting all of our mistakes is communication.

A lack of communication leaves fear and doubt.

Folklore is artistic communication in small groups.

To demarcate [words in way that changes the meaning] is simply to speak a different language than everyone else. And I do not accept semantic games like that. [...] We need to use words as they are actually used and understood. We can correct errors and inconsistencies and make distinctions. But we can't try to foist an alien language on people.

There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.

Love is the only channel for a clear communication.

Communication is key to having a good team.

Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it.

I'd say the key to a good relationship is communication .

Communication is the key for any global business.

Communication goes beyond the words we choose.

When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language.

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

Originally when we talked about language disorder it was a catastrophic language disorder. It's substantial, and from a treatment standpoint it's okay to keep diluting that term, but from a research standpoint we need to be much more precise. I wish somebody would take up the mantle of just that particular task.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. That's the genuis of having Ken Branagh here as well. Shakespeare doesn't require you to have a doctorate in his language or whatever to understand him. It just has to be directed and played right. It's all about scale and presence and getting these huge, epic stories across.

To suppose that man without language taught himself to speak, seems to me as absurd as it would be to suppose that without legs he could teach himself to walk. Language, therefore, must have been the immediate gift of God.

We need a new political language with broader narratives. Such a language has to unravel the pervasive ideological, pedagogical, and economic dynamics of a form of economic Darwinism that now governs much of the world. This system must be demystified, politicized, and recognized for the ways in which it has come to pose a dire threat to democracy.

Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.

The ABCs are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once.

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

The relationship is the communication bridge between people.

Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports.

In communication, you get back what you send out.

Fashion shows are really my way of communication.

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.

Communication is only possible between equals.

We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counterintuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counterintuitive course of action.

I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now we talk about a deterrent. And the language is very cleverly constructed to give the impression that it's not what it is.

It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it forms part of the system of grammatical categories, can be conveyed in any language. If a notion is lacking in a given series, it implies a different configuration and not a lack of expressive power.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

You can't be focussed without really great communication

What worries me is that now, communication is virtual.

Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.

A communication highway without content is inconceivable.

Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking.

Pride definitely causes a lack of communication.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

There is no communication in this world except between equals.

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

I majored in political science and speech communication.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.