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Staring into someone’s eyes for a long time is psychic. At first it’s very strange and scary - scarier than the first time you have sex. Then you begin to relax, and the person you’re looking at may become very beautiful. As you look into their eyes, you may see them change sex or race. You can see the child in an old person and a young person may appear ancient. Just looking into someone’s eyes for a long time can be trippier than taking acid.
— Steve Abbott
Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.
— Stephen L. Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.
— Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people. The more
— Nicholas Boothman, How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less
Pausing gives us the opportunity to arrive at an internal place from which we can choose wisely what needs to be done or said, and then do so gently.
— Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage to Be a Stepmom: Finding Your Place Without Losing Yourself
One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay
— John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
Most of us make assumptions about how someone will relate to us, and they are often unfounded.
— Michele Jennae, CHARGE! The Patchwork Rhino
Frankie, I'm fully awake and more curious than George. If we hang up I'll lie here formulating a million reasons for your call, none of them your truth, and that would drive me crazy. You wouldn't do that to the guy who has your grandmother's old phone number, would you? Trust me, you can tell me anything.—Emerson
— Liza M. Wiemer, Hello?
When communication in unclear speculations takes precedence.
— Shantelee R. Brown
I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English.
— A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
You don't talk dirty to make him hot. You "talk dirty" to communicate what you need. And most guys, if you go, "Yeah, yeah, just like that, a little more to the left," they'll do it.
— Nina Hartley
Communication land lines are going to be around for a long time, the internet runs on them, as do the wireless cell phone towers.
— Steven Magee
Real communication is not possible. That is why my message, your perception and your expression shall never be the same.
— Harshit Walia
Suddenly I've become so restless that I'm capable of saying "That is enough" and ending what I'm writing you, which is based mostly on blind words.
— Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life
G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.
— A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
What does it mean to be an advocate? In its broadest sense, advocacy means “any public action to support and recommend a cause, policy or practice.” That covers a lot of public actions, from displaying  a bumper sticker to sounding off with a bullhorn. But whether the action is slapping something on the back of a car or speaking in front of millions, every act of advocacy involves making some kind of public statement, one that says, “I support this.” Advocacy is a communicative act. Advocacy is also a persuasive act. “I support this” is usually followed by another statement (sometimes only implied): “...and you should, too.” Advocacy not only means endorsing a cause or idea, but recommending, promoting, defending, or arguing for it.
— John Capecci and Timothy Cage, Living Proof: Telling Your Story to Make a Difference
A world without radio is a deaf world. A world without television is a blind world. A world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Typography is what communication looks like.There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented.
— James Felici
Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.
— N.T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God
Typography is the use of type to advocate, communicate, celebrate, edu- cate, elaborate, illuminate, and disseminate. Along the way, the words and pages become art.
— James Felici, The Complete Manual of Typography
Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it.
— Ina May Gaskin, Spiritual Midwifery
The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society—and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.
— William H. Whyte
A world without radio is a deaf world.A world without television is a blind world. A a world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Tell me what happens next, after my body has frozen. When I can't communicate. What will I be?
— Louisa Hall, Speak
Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end.
— Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
Lyndon Johnson’s sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words but evocative, of a man with a remarkable gift for images, homey images of a vividness that infused the sentences with drama.
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
So much of what we read and write these days is disposable.
— John Kasich, Every Other Monday: Twenty Years of Life, Lunch, Faith, and Friendship
Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me,” he would say. “Johnson didn’t enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn’t think they had a sense of humor.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story),
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
Always speak first to the toughest person in the room.
— Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you.
— Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don't know why we are doing what we are doing.
— Michael  White
If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they're not going to like you. They don't want to think. They want to be right, unrivaled or entertained.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.
— Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
It's far more important why is being said, than what.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
Bridge miscommunications by talking to parents, hearing their stories, and learning how they’ve shaped yours.
— Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers
Think about it: send SLASH receive. Email is the frenzied killer of proper communication.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.
— Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd
That one,” Ferox said, pointing at Johann with a claw. “I can see he’s communicated like that before and I think I can speak to his mind. Let me see.”“After a moment, Johann broke from the line and approached the dragon.“You did ask me to come closer, didn’t you?” he asked.“Yes, I can speak to this one. He can be my rider.
— Tom Larcombe, Merlin's Travels
I was always amazed at Cambridge how quickly people appeared to take offence at everything I said, but now I see plainly that it was not my words they hated - it was this fairy face. The dark alchemy of this face turns all my gentle human emotions into fierce fairy vices. Inside I am all despair, but this face shows only fairy scorn. My remorse becomes fairy fury and my pensiveness is turned to fairy cunning.
— Susanna Clarke, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.
— David Brooks
He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.
— Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
(LBJ) had what a journalist calls “a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
Reagan is described as "delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.
— H.W. Brands, Reagan: The Life
One of great arts of communication is the skill of listening to people
— Sunday Adelaja
I have come to recognize that being trustworthy does not demand that I be rigidly consistent but that I be dependably real...Can I be expressive enough as a person that what I am will be communicated unambiguously?
— Carl Rogers
In an age of sophistic over-complexity, simplicity can be useful.
— William Krystol
The telephone was a sign of being rushed.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
he knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
Communication with God should not be a one-way traffic.
— Sunday Adelaja
I sometimes think that writing is like driving a sheep down the road. If there's any gate open to the left or the right the reader will most certainly go into it.
— C.S. Lewis
Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.
— Auliq Ice
He often paused before he spoke. She thought this exquisite
—  it was as though he had such regard for his listener that he wanted his words strung together in the best possible way.
When the weeks have built up with frustration and immense stress and one of your co-workers, a manager or an employee triggers irritation or angers you, knowing how to respond in a mindful way can pay huge dividends. Knowing how to not take other people’s emotional baggage personally and intuitively sensing when to bring up concerns and when not to is an expression of emotional intelligence. This is all possible if we are being truly mindful.
— Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals
Prayerful life
—  deeper communication with God.
Communication is like a pressure relief valve for your body. When a little pressure gets cooked up inside and needs to be released, you can gently turn the nozzle and release it slowly and gracefully until you feel better, by way of a productive conversation. But if you choose to ignore the warning signals and leave that pressure inside, it's going to grow and inevitably explode and make a mess, by way of an overreaction and possibly an argument.
— L.K. Elliott, Confessions of an Ex Hot Mess
Quality speaks by itself. Rightly communicated it creates Joy. Like an Infant needs no words to express to her mother. Any success of communication enhances beauty of both, which too needs no words to endorse.
— Priyavrat Thareja
The only difference between people who say they cannot perceive interdimensionally and people who consciously communicate interdimensionally is intent and practice. Most people access interdimensional information unconsciously. When they experience conscious contact with a non-human energy, they tend to pass it off as a curiosity or as intuition, or they cancel out the experience as too weird to deal with.
— Atala Dorothy Toy, We Are Not Alone: A Complete Guide to Interdimensional Cooperation
The concert we give is winning. And if all the people in our organization whose instrument is scouting of player development or major league scouting or player knowledge, all play well, we're going to have the most beautiful symphony of success. And I think we have.
— John Schuerholz
I'm watching you, big boy, my eyes say, but his are closed so it's an optical monologue.
— Mat Johnson, Loving Day
If you have a room which you do not want certain people to get into, put a lock on it for which they do not have the key. But there is no point in talking to them about it, unless of course you want them to admire the room from outside! The honorable thing to do is put a lock on the door which will be noticed only by those who can open it, not by the rest.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get through most of his days on stock answers to stock questions, he thought. Once he catches onto the game, he can manage with an assortment of grunts. This would not be so if people listened to each other, but they don't. They know that no one is going to say anything moving and important to them at that very moment. Anything important will be announced in the newspapers and reprinted for those who missed it. No one really wants to know how his neighbor is feeling, but he asks him anyway, because it is polite, and because he knows that his neighbor certainly will not tell him how he feels. What this woman and I say to each other is not important. It is the simple making of sounds that pleases us.
— Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place
Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.
— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart.
— Harvey Mansfield
�Communication and a clear mutual understanding between two or more people builds the best route to success in any venture. I don’t expect…* immediate action, * instant perfection, * total comprehension* complete implementation, or * flawless execution. I do expect the best communication and honest effort to create the best plans for the best results while being able to stay on the same page as much as possible. If that concept doesn’t work for you, then you won’t be working with me.
— Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music
One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, "had made both sides see themselves as they are.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Great Leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, self-reflection, education, training, and experience
— Tony Buon, The Leadership Coach
Oh.” It was one those ohs that came packed with layers of meaning — none of which merely meant oh.
— Nicki Elson, Vibrizzio
There's the emotional work that comes with living with someone who's not you and who therefore has different preferences ans styles of communicating. She might prefer to talk for three days straight if that's what it takes to resolve an argument, while you would rather fill your pockets with granite and walk into the ocean.
— Paula Szuchman
Make it so obvious even a computer couldn't be confused.
— Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?
When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions; you should just listen to him, just observe what his way is. We put very little emphasis on right and wrong or good and bad. We just see things as they are with him, and accept them. This is how we communicate with each other. Usually when you listen to some statement, you hear it as a kind of echo of yourself. You are actually listening to your own opinion. If it agrees with your opinion you may accept it, but if it does not, you will reject it or you may not even really hear it.
— Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.
— Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. And while I occasionally step over the line and into the world of the melodramatic, it is what I must do in order to communicate clearly and effectively. In order to make my point understood without question.
— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
I'm sorry to bother you," she whispered. "When I get excited about a movie I want to talk. I can't help it.
— Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts
He is hard, frozen ice cream and I am a weak spoon. What I've learned is this: You don't get much ice cream for all the hard work you put in, and the spoon ends up bent.
— Karen Harrington, Sure Signs of Crazy
A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits it not open to things as they are.
— Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
An ancient sage held that in different ages, humans held the senses in different ratios, according to the media by which they communicated and expressed themselves. Hence before writing, the ear was the royal sense. After writing, the eye.
— Karl Schroeder
Women tend to communicate early and often about a problem. Men are more likely to view communication as a tool, and when they see it as the wrong tool for the job, they believe it should be stored neatly in the toolbox.
— Shawn T. Smith, The Woman's Guide to How Men Think: Love, Commitment, and the Male Mind
Understanding what is being said is only a fraction of the task of communicating. Taking in signals from the entire context is critical.
— Joanie Connell, Flying Without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life
Contradictions, in any communication, are the first stepping stones of mistrust
— Paul Babicki
We have to talk more. I need you to know what we need to talk about. In fact, don’t decide what is and isn’t important to share with me, it all is—from the mundane to the shocking. If something upsets you? Tell me. Make me a part of your life in such a deep way that I don’t feel separate from it. I don’t ever want to feel like you’re keeping things from me again, even if it’s unintentional.
— Kat Bastion, Two Bar Mitzvahs
Because, of course, it wouldn't do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight, and he felt he ought to reply in kind.
— Joe Hill
The turning point for effective communication is actually hearing what is being said, rather than hearing what you want to hear instead.
— Dannye Williamsen
So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are is the most important thing to make yourself happy, and to make others happy... So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do; and we should be faithful, subjectively and objectively, to ourselves, and especially to our feelings... it is better to express how you feel without any particular attachment or intention.
— Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
After simmering years of censorship and repression, the masses finally throng the streets. The chants echoing off the walls to build to a roar from all directions, stoking the courage of the crowds as they march on the center of the capital. Activists inside each column maintain contact with each other via text messages; communications centers receive reports and broadcast them around the city; affinity groups plot the movements of the police via digital mapping. A rebel army of bloggers uploads video footage for all the world to see as the two hosts close for battle. Suddenly, at the moment of truth, the lines go dead. The insurgents look up from the blank screens of their cell phones to see the sun reflecting off the shields of the advancing riot police, who are still guided by close circuits of fully networked technology. The rebels will have to navigate by dead reckoning against a hyper-informed adversary. All this already happened, years ago, when President Mubarak shut down the communications grid during the Egyptian uprising of 2011. A generation hence, when the same scene recurs, we can imagine the middle-class protesters - the cybourgeoisie - will simply slump forward, blind and deaf and wracked by seizures as the microchips in their cerebra run haywire, and it will be up to the homeless and destitute to guide them to safety.
— CrimethInc., Contradictionary
You can't solve problems until you understand the other side." –Jeffrey Manber
— Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
When you draw a line in the sand, be careful it is not low tide.
— Dixie Waters
If you don't know the question, you are not ready for the answer.
— Vivian Amis, The Essentials of Life
The communication with God is very important, because the communication is one of our greatest needs, and God is the most important one we need.
— Marieta Maglas
We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbors. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories: Volume 1
Body language speaks much more succinctly and honestly than mere spoken words.
— Dixie Waters
There’s a much different message received, when the signs written in the flesh were not in your hand writing.
— Dixie Waters
When Internet parlance finds its way into our accepted vocabulary, it becomes a cliché.
— Paul Babicki, Netiquette IQ: A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email
When it comes to texting the power of you thumbs compel you
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Perhaps we now need to engineer scarcity in our communications, in our interactions, and in the things we consume. Otherwise our lives become like a Morse code transmission that's lacking breaks - a swarm of noise blanketing the valuable data beneath.
— Michael  Harris
a lack of communication is preferable to a profusion of miscommunications.
— Sagey Malik
When we say something, our subjective intention or situation is always involved. So there is no perfect word; some distortion is always present in a statement.
— Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
We emphasize straightforwardness. You should be true to your feelings, and to your mind, expressing yourself without any reservations. This helps the listener to understand more easily.
— Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
— Björk
silence can sometimes save you. everything doesn’t warrant words.
— Alexandra Elle
Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.
— C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.
— Pat Conroy, South of Broad
Teach me to speak the language of men.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
A letter is the most basic—yet the most flexible—mode of correspondence, regardless of its subject matter.
— Scribendi, How to Write a Letter
The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Becoming an effective letter writer means analyzing each situation individually and choosing the form of correspondence accordingly.
— Scribendi, How to Write a Letter
I hate how it’s so much easier to be open and straightforward to a computer screen than to an actual person.
— Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Boyfriend
Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Developing your blog is a balancing act between appeasing current readers and reaching out to new ones.
— Scribendi, How to Write a Blog
If only we were angels, with transparent bodies and transparent thoughts...
— John Durham Peters, Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication
Those with whom we communicate we think better than they are; those with whom we don’t, worse.
— Dennis Vickers Lost Words
Do you know what every instructor in the world wants from you? He or she really, really wants you to do two things: Demonstrate that you have understood the course material and write intelligently about your subject.
— Scribendi, How to Write an Essay in Five Easy Steps
I’m a screwed-up person who no longerknows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter.
— Matthew Quick
a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.
— George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
Every art communicates because it expresses. It enables us to share vividly and deeply in meanings… For communication is not announcing things… Communication is the process of creating participation, of making common what had been isolated and singular… the conveyance of meaning gives body and definiteness to the experience of the one who utters as well as to that of those who listen.
— John Dewey, Art as Experience
Horses don't speak, but they communicate through body language. If you look very closely, you'll find out your horse has been trying to talk to you every day.
— Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum
A person who speaks as if he knows everything soon drives away his listeners. The Universe communicates itself to us in many ways, and sometimes, it is through the words of others. If we act the know-it-all, others may refrain from talking to us, and we may fail to get the message they could have given us.
— Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers, Volume Two
Successful couples learn the secret of fighting for their relationship rather than against one another.
— Bill Farrel, Men Are Like Waffles--Women Are Like Spaghetti
I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.
— Ronald Reagan
A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.
— Pam Farrel, Men Are Like Waffles--Women Are Like Spaghetti Devotional Study Guide
The bottom line with men is: they feel best about themselves when they are solving problems. Therefore, they spend most of their time doing what they are best at while they attempt to ignore the things which cause them to feel deficient.
— Bill Farrel, Men Are Like Waffles--Women Are Like Spaghetti
Now we have so many methods of communication: Land phone, Fax, Pager, Mobile phone, Texting, E mail, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...and the list keeps growing.......But Communication itself has not improved!
— Ankala V Subbarao
It is lack of communication that leads to unhappy marriage.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She never opened her mail in the middle of the day. Sometimes she forgot about it for a week or more until people rang to complain. Nor did she check her answering machine messages. In fact, it had only been in the last year that she had finally bought an answering machine, and she steadfastly refused to have a mobile, to the incredulity of all those around her, who didn’t believe that people could actually function without one. But Frieda wanted to be able to escape from incessant communications and demands. She didn’t want to be at anyone’s beck and call, and she liked cutting herself off from the urgent inanities of the world. When she was on her own, she liked to be truly alone. Out of contact and adrift.
— Nicci French, Blue Monday
I love and enjoy writing.Writing is a form of daily communication.It a communication to higher divine power.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.
— Ronald Reagan
How you feel at the time affects how you receive and react to communication from others. You have to put on your objective eyes and ears in order to be consistently fair. - Charmainsim
— Charmaine Smith Ladd, Shake Hands with Yourself: A Peacemaker's Guide to Happiness & Inner Peace
The peloton was Facebook on wheels-and during this period, information was flying.
— Tyler Hamilton, The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their schedules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair.
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
Rather than communicating blame communicate your standards for proper future treatment.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The communication block between men and 
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
You don't have to explain something you haven't said.
— Calvin Coolidge
Be a believer in true love. Seek deep communication with others and with yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.
— Dale Ludwig
...no matter how advanced the system, no matter how precise, unless we have the will to communicate, there's no connection. And even supposing the will is there, there are times like now when we don't know the other party's number. Or even if we know the number, we misdial.
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them.
— Dale Ludwig
Well-designed visuals do more than provide information
—  they bring order to the conversation.
If you can't communicate, then you don't have a relationship!
— B. Dave Walters
The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.
— Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works
Nationalist (forces around the world) could now more readily communicate and share their grievances, viewing themselves as similar groups, engaged in a common struggle for greater autonomy against control exerted from London or Paris.
— Charles Emmerson, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.
— Dale Ludwig
He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.
— Davis Bunn, Lion of Babylon
Just as you can’t rehearse your way to success, you can’t design your way there either.
— Dale Ludwig
Technology is great...when it works.
— Bobby Darnell
The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.
— Gregory C. Carlson, Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says About You
When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.
— Dale Ludwig
Ships passing in broad daylight.
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
If you criticize others’ ideas, they will almost never use yours no matter how good they are.
— Garrison Wynn, The Real Truth about Success: What the Top 1 Percent Do Differently, Why They Won't Tell You, and How You Can Do It Anyway
When you are standing in the middle of a storm you have two choices: Pray to God that it goes away. Or, start praying to God that he gives you the wisdom to figure out why you're standing in the middle of a storm.
— Shannon L. Alder
Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.
— Bernard Werber, Empire of the Ants
True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn’t it be easier to just call them conversations? That’s really what they are.
— Dale Ludwig
Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.
— Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
Great communicators exemplify the power that building relationships, creating respect and achieving results can have.
— John Stoker, Overcoming Fake Talk: How to Hold Real Conversations That Create Respect, Build Relationships, and Get Results
93/7 Rule: 93% of communication occurs through nonverbal behavior & tone
—  only 7% of communication takes place through the use of words.
In every one of your relationships, you are on a continuum between intimacy and separation. You stand on a slide that tilts you toward either intimacy or separateness. Exactly where you stand at any given moment is the result of your decisions, your feelings, how you handle situations, and the way you and the other person communicate.
— Anne  Katherine, Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day
A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.
— Dale Ludwig
I try asking him some more questions, but it's like talking to voice mail.
— Michael Montoure, Slices
The phone collapsed distances, just as the radio did, and, like the radio, it relied on the miracle of imagination: one had to concentrate deeply, plunge headlong into it.
— Daniel Alarcón, Lost City Radio
The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Mobile is the digital gateway for the real world.
— Tomi Ahonen
When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me
— Carl R. Rogers
Men? They are simple creatures. Is there something wrong with your man? Feed him, and take him to your bed. Et Voila! All problems, they disappear. But if something is wrong with the woman? Je suis désolé. Women need to talk.– André Chevalier
— Nikki Sex, Kink
Extroverts communicate well with others, Introverts communicate well with themselves
— Pablo
Guys get a bad rap for not wanting to talk about their feelings but maybe women are in part to blame for that. One thing that I learned from working with people where English was not their first language was this: just because they don’t speak your language doesn’t mean that they’re dumb. Maybe we just need to talk more slowly, use simpler words and have lots more patience.
— Dermot Davis, The Younger Man
A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.
— Loren Weisman
Language is not law; it is in fact a lot like music. Speech is jazz – first you learn the basic rules, and then you become good enough to improvise all the time. Writing is somewhat more like classical composition, where established forms and conditions will hold greater sway.
— Robert Lane Greene, You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.
— Robert Lane Greene, You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into a lucid form and forcing them into the tightfitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
— Pat Conroy, My Reading Life
It is the dream of every white person to be able to resolve all conflicts by complaining to unrelated parties. Because of this, white people are able to endure years of frustration and anger without saying a word in the hopes that everything will just work itself out without having to make a scene.
— Christian Lander, Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions
If teaching is largely about faculty-student interaction, then we have to recognize that human interaction is changing.
— José Antonio Bowen, Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning
We know so little about what goes on in another person’s head.
— Élise Turcotte, Guyana
If one wants to be loved and return it full score dagger of silence closes the door.
— David W. Earle
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
— Frank Moore Colby
Our visuals must represent the truth and decode the verbal jumble so these children can find the right direction.
— Adele Devine, Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School
To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority of the world's humans either speak and something primitive or speak something badly.
— Robert Lane Greene, You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control. We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's no
— Steve Wozniak
And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.
— Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer
He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.
— Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman
If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
[It would not be long] ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country.
— Samuel Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse His Letters and Journals Volume 1
Neither sex is wrong in their communication
—  both sexes need to learn how to understand each other.
communication is a bridge to two or more people to understand...
— Jinnul Jr.
Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.
— Pamela Cummins, Insights for Singles: Steps to Find Everlasting Love
...and I know what it is that's going to destroy the world. Lack of communication - reciprocal communication: cultural, political, intellectual - whatever you like. But more, it's snobbery and self-deceit, which are artificial, protective barriers that prevent communication.
— Angus Stewart, Sandel
All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood
—  people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief
Never explain yourself to people, just make them feel you.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.
— Isaac Asimov, The Robots of Dawn
If a philosophical writer cannot be followed, the difficulty of his subject can be placed only in mitigation of his offense, not in condonation of it. There are too many expert witnesses on the other side.
— William Zinsser
Nothing stings quite like an unanswered text message.
— Paula Stokes, The Art of Lainey
What makes somebody nice or unpleasant to be around is the way they communicate. When people are fucked up, their communication is fucked up.
— Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup
A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at least one disposable diaper from being used and created. One cloth diaper after another, days accumulated into years and now our next child is using the cloth diapers we bought for our firstborn.
— Gloria Ng, Cloth Diapering Made Easy
If the way you've been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you'd better take a fresh look at your interpersonal communication skills.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Dream a Little Dream
Baby, sometimes what I’m thinking doesn’t translate into words. You’re going to have to badger them out of me until I get better at this, okay?
— Tessa Bailey, Staking His Claim
When a person feels appreciated for their infinite and absolute value, you can then communicate about any issue and you will have their cooperation and respect.
— Kimberly Giles, Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness
Human beings remember "firsts"- the first time something happens, or the begining of an experience- and we tend to remember "lasts" as well. So when you are about to make a critical/negative delivery , start your criticism with a positive begining, it will affect the rest of the experience. Start by giving them solid ground to stand by expressing the fact that you value them and they matter. Once they are reassured of their own worth, people will accept your comments far more easily and they'll get less defensive.
— Olivia Fox Cabane, The Charisma Myth: Master the Art of Personal Magnetism
I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.
— Sara Sheridan
Nothing beats effective communication because it clears all doubts, misunderstandings, accusations, rumour, insecurities, gossip, hearsay, etc.
— Uzoma Nnadi
If you speak three languages you're trilingual. If you speak two languages you're bilingual. If you speak the language of the opposite sex, you can communicate.
— Julieanne O'Connor, Spelling It Out for Your Man
I find that often simple words say all that needs to be said in less time, using less energy, with all the details wanted- fully in tact. Love it.
— Sereda Aleta Dailey, The Oracle of Poetic Wisdom
When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.
— John C. Bean, Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom
I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.
— Sara Sheridan
I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.
— Sara Sheridan
The key to Lincoln's famous employment of humor is not that he failed to appreciate the tragic aspects of human existence, but rather that he felt these with such keeness that some relief was required.
— Elton Trueblood, Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership
[on Rouge] This is a film about communication that disappears. We have better and better tools and less and less communication with each other. We only exchange information.
— Krzysztof Kieślowski
Because nothing between human beings is uncomplicated and there's no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them.
— Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys
I like people who can keep the conversation going no matter how random the topic gets.
— Turcois Ominek
God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening.
— Jim George, A Husband After God's Own Heart
All power lies in free expression.
— Krishna Sagar, Summit Your Everest: Your Coach for Obstacle & Failure Management
Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.
— Mary Mihalic, The 40 Best Business Tips No One's Ever Told You
Communication is not a one-way street.
— Jim George, A Husband After God's Own Heart
Remarkably, studies of visual perception have found that two-dimensional images projected onto the retina only achieve full dimensionality as a result of our perception: we infer the third dimension of depth. Sadly, though, as the urgency to expedite all communicative transactions usurps out customary patterns of exchange, perception is accelerated as well. There does not seem to be a great deal of time left over to infer--or interpret, or imagine--much of anything at all. In the end, of course, there is nothing real about this at all, except for our propensity to let it happen.
— Jessica Helfand, Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture
In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to credible experiences of meaning. It did this by tying language to the gold standard of what things themselves communicate. Where randomness is disabled, authority should shine forth.
— Peter Sloterdijk, Du mußt dein Leben ändern
Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin
— John Geddes
Dogmatism is inversely proportional to evidence.
— Dana Wallace
Advances in communication technology foster a false fantasy of togetherness by transmitting the impression of contact- phone calls, faxes, e-mail- without its substance. And when a relationship is ailing from frank time deprivation, both parties often aver that nothing can be done. Every activity they spend time on (besides each other) has been classified as indispensable: cleaning the house, catching the news, balancing the checkbook. (205)
— Thomas Lewis, A General Theory of Love
Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together.
— Shannon L. Alder
We love those to whom we can tell our story.
— Marty Rubin
Understand your audience and you will understand the impact of your message on each follower in your social media networks.
— Matt Gentile
The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it." For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is a godsend.
— Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity