Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

communication

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

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

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.

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

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

The desire to write grows with writing.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

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

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

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Writing is a communication.

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

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

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

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.