Quotes & anectdotes from
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communication

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

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.

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

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

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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