Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate. "

Christie Hefner

Communication

Power

Control

Related Quotes:

" I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. "

" Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality. "

Victoria de los Angeles

Communication

Good

Music

" After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward. "

" All the people who run agencies, all the important people in agencies have taken communication courses, marketing courses, advertising courses, and courses basically teach advertising as a science, and advertising is so far from a science it isn't even funny. Advertising is an art. "

" Each couple's version of intimacy is so fascinating to me. A friend will tell me about her marriage, and I'll think, 'Yikes, they have horrible communication! They're going to get divorced!' And then I'll hear about them at another time and think, 'Wow, they love each other so much!' "

Miranda July

Time

Love

" Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that. "

" Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. "

" Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon. "

" Words are all we have. "

Samuel Beckett

Words

Communication

" As Americans lose the wider face-to-face ties that build social trust, they become more dependent on romantic relationships for intimacy and deep communication and more vulnerable to isolation if a relationship breaks down. "

" Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction. "

" Most people have to talk so they won't hear. "

" The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family. "

" To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. "

" But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication. "

" Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. "

Frank Moore Colby

Communication

Makes

" The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! "

" Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. "

" In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people. "

" Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. "

" It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. "

Mark Twain

Good

Communication

" The disturbing truth about science communication is that we have theories and ways of delivering messages that really are like putting a candle to the dark, as Carl Sagan would say. We aren't sure what will work, when, or how much. But for all that uncertainty, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try. "

" Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication. "

" Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard. "

" The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. "

" The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. "

" Digital communication is completely different from in-person, face-to-face conversations. One will give you surface insights, and the other really gives you depth. "

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

" There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies. "

" I think always having somebody that you trust and you know can help in the communication, that is very important. "