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The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith in the individual – faith that he can be persuaded by rational means to beliefs compatible with social good.
— Harold Edmund Stearns, Liberalism in America: Its Origin, Its Temporary Collapse, Its Future
How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?
— William Longgood
And now it [grass] seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves, Tenderly will I use you curling grass,It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I would have loved them, It may be you from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mother's laps,  And here you are the mothers' 
— Walt Whitman
Moriré besando a Simon Snow. Simon Snow morirá besándome.
— Rainbow Rowell, Carry On
Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I left her in the forest of Arden
—  I shall find her in an orchard in Verona.
you have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
...would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk’s whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
It made me think how different everything might have been if we had both been born in Terravin.
— Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
Make a dreams. Always
— Zué Zerimar
Love is a power which produces love.
— Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
— George Bernard Shaw
Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.
— Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.
— Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices
Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.
— Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
— Marquis de Sade
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
— Lawrence Clark Powell
Words are the source of misunderstandings.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
— Charlie Kaufman
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.
— P.G. Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
— Kahlil Gibran
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
— Guy de Maupassant
It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.
— Guy de Maupassant
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
— Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
[Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him to speak.""Just to shout at me, really," said Tessa. "Not quite loaves and fishes.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.
— Franz Kafka
I tried all kinds of approaches: sexy, friendly, intimidating—nothing worked. I’m starting to think there’s an invisible force field that prevents honest communication between X and Y chromosomes.
— Jody Gehrman, Babe in Boyland
We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share.
— Rania Al-Abdullah
Stephen Covey, in his book The 8th Habit, decribes a poll of 23,000 employees drawn from a number of companies and industries. He reports the poll's findings: * Only 37 percent said they have a clear understanding of what their organization is trying to achieve and why * Only one in five was enthusiastic about their team's and their organization's goals * Only one in five said they had a clear "line of sight" between their tasks and their team's and organization's goals * Only 15 percent felt that their organization fully enables them to execute key goals * Only 20 percent fully trusted the organization they work forThen, Covey superimposes a very human metaphor over the statistics. He says, "If, say, a soccer team had these same scores, only 4 of the 11 players on the field would know which goal is theirs. Only 2 of the 11 would care. Only 2 of the 11 would know what position they play and know exactly what they are supposed to do. And all but 2 players would, in some way, be competing against their own team members rather than the opponent.
— Chip Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
To speak little is natural. Therefore a gale does not blow a whole morning nor does a downpour last a whole day.
— Lao Tzu
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.
— Edward R. Murrow
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
— Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing
—  but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one’s soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way.
— Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Communication is truth
—  communication is happiness. To share is our duty
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
— Phyllis Theroux
No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another
— Robert Barr, Selected Stories Of Robert Barr
We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!
— Taylor Mali
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
— Cory Doctorow
Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.
— Thomas S. Monson, Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson
We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.
— Mira Sorvino
I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it
—  we’ve forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it.
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
— Richard Feynman
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.
— André Gide, Journals, 1889-1949
Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say.
— Kelli Jae Baeli, ISO
CommunicationIs a work of artSome are normally born with itSome may need a chart
— A. Saleh, Poetry Eyes
Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.
— Stephen King, Just After Sunset
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
— Edward R. Murrow
I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.
— Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.
— John Green
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
— Earl Warren
To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?
— Chip Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing quadriplegic. But my communication system disqualifies repartee: the keenest rapier grows dull and falls flat when it takes several minutes to thrust it home. By the time you strike, even you no longer understand what had seemed so witty before you started to dictate it, letter by letter. So the rule is to avoid impulsive sallies. It deprives conversation of its sparkle, all those gems you bat back and forth like a ball-and I count this forced lack of humor one of the great drawbacks of my condition.
— Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.
— Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken.
— Margaret Craven, I Heard the Owl Call My Name
At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.
— Jodi Thomas, Twisted Creek
The medium obscured the message.
— Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.
— Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.
— Paul Tournier
The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.
— Chip Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
What the dead had no speech for, when living,They can tell you, being dead: the communicationOf the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
— T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.
— Joyce Carol Oates, Beasts
A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web” of soil fungi that connects vegetation in an intimate network that allows the sharing of an enormous amount of information and goods.
— Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World
The essence of communication is intention.
— Werner Erhard
It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.
— Walter Pater
If I already intuitively "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that what sounds like common sense often isn't.... It's your job, as a communicator, to expose the parts of your message that are uncommon sense.(p.72)
— Chip Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
When one comes from the bottom they know how to deal with people on the bottom.When one educates themself to communicate they learn how to deal with a multitude of types of people.Life experience, and communication is at the core of people relations.
— Therone Shellman
People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.
— Chip Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Do you understand what I'm saying?Pardon? I just wanna hear you talking.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition.
— Graham Greene, Travels With My Aunt
Keep to the 'I-statements' and discuss your feelings, she lectured herself. I think, I feel. Don't be accusatory. Don't tell him that he is an insecure prick who should back off before you deck him. Instead, say, 'I feel you are acting like an insecure prick who should back off before I deck you.
— Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows
In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum) communication, for stability of thought or dependability of behaviour to be successful.
— Timothy Leary, Chaos & Cyber Culture
It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.
— Nicholas Boothman, Convince Them in 90 Seconds or Less: Make Instant Connections That Pay Off in Business and in Life
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
— Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
In the event of a communication breakdown, decide whether you will dwell in the negative or rise above the angst and turmoil in a firm, positive manner and encourage all parties to listen and be heard.
— Lorii Myers, Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace
I have something to tell you.""How, you have something to tell me?""You have understood me exactly.""Well, I am listening.""Listening? Then, you wish me to tell you?""Yes, that is it. I am listening, and therefore I wish you to tell me.""Shall I tell you now?""No.
— Steven Brust, Iorich
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
— Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Try saying this: 'What's true for me today is that I have angry feelings concerning what I heard you say when you said what you said. It reminds me of what my mother said when she said what she said, and that hurts me so that's where I'm at with this, and it's not all right with me for today.' This should help to avoid a lot of communication problems.
— Judith Stone, Heeling Your Inner Dog:: A Self-Whelp Book
A lively discussion is usually helpful, because the hottest fire makes the hardest steel.
— Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor
Why do you think, A.J.," they say in unison, "that you find these boys so attractive?" I didn't say that this fiery chemical explosion leaps from somewhere inside me. Parents don't want to hear these things. I shrugged and said nothing. "Maybe you should try sitting on the intensity," Mom suggests, "just until your feelings catch up with reality.""We could chain you to the water heater," Dad offers, "until these little moments pass."You see what I'm up against.
— Joan Bauer
Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.
— Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.
— Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretationand they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.
— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.
— Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories
She didn't say anything—at least, not with her mouth. Her eyes told me a different story. The only problem was that they each had a thousand tongues talking, each in a language I didn't speak.
— J.X. Burros
Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.
— Laura Esquivel, Swift as Desire
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.
— Barnett Newman
Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and messages, information and persuasion; it also meets a deeper need and serves a higher purpose. Whether clear or garbled, tumultuous or silent, deliberate or fatally inadvertent, communication is the ground of meeting and the foundation of community. It is, in short, the essential human connection.
— Ashley Montagu, The Human Connection
We may well find that if we are to fulfill God's mandate on earth, we will need to communicate less often so we can communicate more. We will need to forsake the ease and the pace of quantity for the reflective significance of quality.
— Tim Challies, The Next Story: Life and Faith after the Digital Explosion
Geez, what do I need to do, use semaphore? I told you I was unclaimed.
— Katie MacAlister, You Slay Me
Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony.
— Ashly Lorenzana
We have developed communications systems to permit man on earth to talk with man on the moon. Yet mother often cannot talk with daughter, father to son, black to white, labour with management or democracy with communism
— Hadley Read, Communication: Methods for All Media
Here's one of the problems with communicating in the words of a man who is not around to explain himself: it's damn hard sometimes to tell what he was talking about. Look, the sheer fact that people have banged out book after article after dramatic interpretation of this guy should tell you that despite his eloquence, he wasn't the clearest of communicators.
— Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters
Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid.""Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provençal."Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement.
— Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
Effective Communication is a way to success
— Jaspal Singh Malik
He opened the first letter, No "Dear Mr. Woods." It was a page full of profanities. There was something oddly refreshing about honest, to-the-point hate mail. No hypocrisy and forced politeness. Too many letters ripped you to shreds, then closed off 'Sincerely yours.
— Randy Alcorn, Deadline
I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me.
— Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories
Everything is in the way the material is composed.
— Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea
Open scatter is more fundamental than coupled sharing; it is the stuff from which, on splendid occasions, dialogue may arise.
— John Durham Peters, Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication
Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.
— Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
We speak, and write, in one of the most diverse, gloriously ecumenical tongues on the planet. In English, there is a word or phrase for pretty much anything we want to say, and if there isn't, we make it up, and it is welcomed into the family. We can express ourselves as complexly or as simply as we like. We can be magniloquent didacts, or we can talk plain.
— Jeff Deck
As human beings, how do we choose to react in that instant when someone walks toward us, smiles, and begins to speak?
— Jeff Deck, The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time
Shulman argues that work that is valued is work that is presented to colleagues. The failure to make this kind of wider connection weakens the sense of community. This happens in scholarly life when such essential functions as professional service or teaching do not get discussed openly or often enough.
— Charles E. Glassick, Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate
The more you engage and connect, the more engagements and connections you will have.
— Loren Weisman
Communication creates collaboration. Big ears are better than big egos. When you’re not listening, ask good questions.
— Bill Walsh
We have the best chance of communicating our thoughts if we are sincere and speak from the heart, without hidden intent.
— Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers
When Arecibo is not listening to anything else, it hears the voice of creation.
— Ted Chiang, The Great Silence
Just as we use speech and gestures to communicate, so we use touch. Words can say, ‘I love you’, but touch can also say how and how much, and, at the same time, ‘I respect you’, ‘I need you’, and ‘thank you’. For a long time, scientists somehow thought that touch served merely to emphasize a verbal message. But now it is clear even to them that touch can be the message, and that it can be more nuanced and sophisticated than either speech or gestures, and more economical to boot. What’s more, touch is a two-way street; and a person’s reaction to our touch can tell us much more than their words ever could. Finally, while words can lie, or be taken for granted, primal touch is difficult to either ignore or discount.
— Neel Burton, For Better For Worse: Should I Get Married?
Remember, no one can read your mind. People’s actions or lack of, are not always purposeful. If you have a problem that you wish solved, you must communicate it. If you don’t want to communicate your problem, then you also give away your right to worry, stress or complain about it. You are accountable for yourself.
— Akiroq Brost
No" works just fine as a complete sentence. You don't have to explain yourself.I said no, then stopped talking.
— Scott Stabile
Assuming less does not make you naive, it makes you a better listener.
— Terry a O'Neal
There is no one-size-fits-all in communication—everyone’s interpretation of what what you say and how you say it is different.
— Terry a O'Neal
I've been watching you ever since you came into town, and you never gave a single sign that you were interested in her. That's why I made a move. If I couldn't tell, neither can she.""I'm very bad at co
— Dan Wells, Fragments
Connecting to the outernet was less of a shock this time, as the monitor gave him a sense of distance from it, but it was still annoying. How did these people live with such a system, stalked by advertisements and "free" offers and icons that would take you to another site, unasked-for, the moment you gave them your attention? It was like wending your way through an obstacle course. Perhaps after a while you just learned to tune it all out... or perhaps you could buy programs that did it for you. He would have to design himself one of those before he did any more real work on the outernet, though he suspected that the consumer programs which were stalking him were capable of adapting to anything he could turn out quickly.Advertising: the ultimate predator. He longed for the simplicity of the Gueran network, which simply did what it was supposed to and no more. When had these people lost touch with the fact that the purpose of a network was to facilitate communication, not impede it?
— C.S. Friedman, This Alien Shore
I am alone, but never lonely. I am lonely, but never alone.
— Benjamin Aubrey Myers
I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it's cold on a hot day. It isn't good to talk so much about the weather — weather is a highly personal matter, and communication on the subject inevitably fails.
— Yōko Tawada, Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.
— Stephen R. Covey
Communication is the oxygen of a great culture.
— kamil Toume
Language communicates in terms of what is already know
—  it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.
Media: the tongue of a nation!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Every new form of communication brings with it a perennial angst about what it is doing to our brains. We are not the first to feel that everything is changing too quickly around us, and we won't be the last. Throughout history, communication technologies have been catalysts of societal and cultural change that upset the status quo.
— Alfred Hermida, Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters
You must be open and influenceable; then ironically, you will also discover an increase in your own power to influence
— Stephen R. Covey
The messages must be stuck somewhere in the tube of light underneath the ocean that connects London and New York.
— Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Good communicators always articulate messages in a manner they want others to understand and not how they understand it
— Moonish Sood
It's not how well you communicate, but how intensely you have blended emotions with words that provides hints and triggers audiences mind to decipher and respond without your influence is what matters!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Communication happens on the periphery between two minds while communion melts two beings into one! What are YOU?
— Ramana Pemmaraju
I rarely interacted much with anyone back then who wasn't retarded. When I did, it struck me how pompous and impatient they were, always measuring their words, twisting things around. Everybody was so obsessed with being understood. It made me sick.
— Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World
Communication is not a two way street. It is a bridge. Either you have one or you build one. It's about connecting, not correcting.
— Farshad Asl
Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.
— Amitav Ghosh
In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages. And it is just this transition from tongue to hand that has permitted humans to regain the ability-lost, according to Josephus, since Eden-to communicate with the animals.
— Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Illusion of transparency: We always know what we mean by our words, and so we expect others to know it too. Reading our own writing, the intended interpretation falls easily into place, guided by our knowledge of what we really meant. It’s hard to empathize with someone who must interpret blindly, guided only by the words.Be not too quick to blame those who misunderstand your perfectly clear sentences, spoken or written. Chances are, your words are more ambiguous than you think.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Don’t believe on, “143 in written,” Because words contribute only 7% in communication!
— Dr Rafiq Dar
An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.
— Chip Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
We don't communicate anymore. We just talk.
— Donny Miller, Beautiful People with Beautiful Feelings
Plants can feel pressure and emotion. When something is said or done with intention, a plant can respond. So every day we tell our tree that it is beautiful, it will get more and more beautiful. I hope that tree knew how beautiful I thought it was.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
That was messages without meaning: telepathy without brains.
— Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
Two things I've learned: 1) you simply cannot change someone's mind on certain issues and 2) some issues are so important you cannot stop trying to.
— J.S.B. Morse, Everyone Agrees: Book I: Words, Ideas, and a Universal Morality
The English Language is a form of communication! Words aren't only bombs and bullets - no, they're little gifts, containing meanings. What is true in love, is equally true at law
— Phillip Roth
More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, our culture has been carved up into radically distinct, unbridgeable, and antagonistic entities that no longer speak the same language and cannot communicate. This is the divide between a literate, marginalized minority and those who have been consumed by an illiterate mass culture.
— Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Reality took forever — the underwater way people walked and sent their voices wobbling through the air, how printed words lay inert like bugsplat, all manifesting the basic DUH of the physical plane. By the time he decided to go anywhere he wondered why he wasn't there already. As soon as he sent an email he felt he should already have the reply. And learning any fact, he was annoyed not to have known it already, because whenever anything happened, the conversation around it had already trended and backlashed and been reexamined and swallowed and shat and reswallowed and reshat in a thousand places online, until all thinking felt redundant. We needed brain-to-brain; only then would we catch up to real time. Right now everything progressed so slowly that by the time we arrived at the future it was the present again.
— Tony Tulathimutte, Private Citizens
The power of well a formulated question unlocks the mind, frees the spirit and allows the imagination to realize a vision through the clarity of intent.
— W Larsen Hughes
Conversation often becomes mere verbal performance and oral horseplay rather than fair-minded communication. (“Juicy rumours “)
— Erik Pevernagie
A postcard and I'm pining for New England. . .
— Amy  Ballard, Landlocked
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
— Rollo May
Our age: more "communication experts" that important things to say.
— Luigina Sgarro
Effective communication requires active listening skills.
— Farshad Asl
People cannot escape the looming specter of a deathwatch and the imposing emptiness that comes with the termination of their existence. People resist going silently into the night. We seek to howl at the moon and make known our search for a diagrammatic overture that voices our unquantifiable existence. Terrified of squandering our existence, we each seek to break out from our muteness and strike an accord with our brothers and sisters whom share our inherent desire to reach a global consilience.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.
— E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan
One of the benchmarks of great communicators is their ability to listen not just to what's being said, but to what's not being said as well. They listen between the lines.
— Laurie Buchanan, PhD
People who are adept in healthy self-expression exercise front-end consideration before speaking.
— Laurie Buchanan, PhD
Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.
— Fred Rogers, You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
Communication must be HOT: honest, open, and two-way.
— Dan Oswald
If her mother had been observing this interaction, she'd tell Clementine she was wrong, that she needed to keep talking, to say everything that was on her mind, to communicate, to leave no possibility for misinterpretation.If her father were here, he'd put his finger to his lips and say, "Shh."Clementine settled for two words."I'm sorry," she said.
— Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty
Ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything. 1) Does this need to be said 2) “Does this need to be said by me? 3) Does this need to be said by me now?
— Craig Ferguson
Listen with your eyes as well as your ears.
— Graham Speechley
. . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Love is a loud communication between two and a mannequin of silence for others
— Akansh Malik, Love Heals Everything
Listen with an open mind, gather all the incoming information, both verbal and non-verbal and be careful not to ignore things you don’t wish to hear. Don’t make assumptions or jump to conclusions. The punchline usually comes at the end!
— Graham Speechley
Trans” may work well enough as shorthand, but the quickly developing mainstream narrative it evokes (“born in the wrong body,” necessitating an orthopedic pilgrimage between two fixed destinations) is useless for some—but partially, or even profoundly, useful for others? That for some, “transitioning” may mean leaving one gender entirely behind, while for others—like Harry, who is happy to identify as a butch on T—it doesn’t? I’m not on my way anywhere, Harry sometimes tells inquirers. How to explain, in a culture frantic for resolution, that sometimes the shit stays messy? I do not want the female gender that has been assigned to me at birth. Neither do I want the male gender that transsexual medicine can furnish and that the state will award me if I behave in the right way. I don’t want any of it. How to explain that for some, or for some at some times, this irresolution is OK—desirable, even (e.g., “gender hackers”)—whereas for others, or for others at some times, it stays a source of conflict or grief? How does one get across the fact that the best way to find out how people feel about their gender or their sexuality—or anything else, really—is to listen to what they tell you, and to try to treat them accordingly, without shellacking over their version of reality with yours?
— Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
The most powerful channel of communicationis still, "The Heart" !
— Wordions
Sometimes there are not the right words for my thoughts. Speech feels like it's not a natural way to communicate. This is when typing the words makes my thoughts come out easier.
— Tina J. Richardson
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
— John Dewey
I don't have to look at your eyes to listen that's whatmy ears are for.
— Tina J. Richardson
I like the way Twitter makes one be more concise.It looks like someone is saying sometthing wise
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Mysterious Murder of Marilyn Monroe
The biggest barrier in communication is that tendency of listening to reply and not to understand.
— Wilson M. Mukama
...for she soars with the wildest hyperbole when not tagging after the most pedestrian dictum.
— Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
Conversations sometimes are so hard to follow.People are so confusing with the wrong facialexpressions for their words.
— Tina J. Richardson
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.
— Peter Drucker
If words are power then silence is superpower.
— Rajesh Walecha
Sometimes the words that are left unspoken are the ones that most needed to be said.
— Vi Keeland, Stuck-Up Suit
An argument that is the loudest and gets the last word is not always the strongest. Know when to leave your argument on the table. If it’s a strong argument,
— Suleika Jaouad
Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore.
— A.E. Samaan
Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones out together as once we pulled out our cigarette packets. But probably it’s because we are easily bored.
— Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship.
— Lorin Morgan-Richards, Dark Letter Days: Collected Works
Everybody seemed to like Skype except him, Tony thought, closing his office door then settling in front of his screen. His dislike was both personal and professional. Everybody looked weird on Skype. Everyone, frankly, looked like a potential patient. There was something very unsettling about that fish-eyed stare. Even people he liked looked deranged. From a professional perspective, the trouble was you could never see enough of the person you were in conversation with to gauge their body language. They might be giving off all sort of signals you’d be aware of in what his boss had taken to calling “F2F encounters,” but the Skype interface could hide a multitude of clues.
— Val McDermid
Communication is now often experienced as a superhuman phenomenon that towers above individuals. A new generation has come of age with a reduced expectation of what a person can be, and of who each person might become.
— Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
The power of the metaphor is that in a single flash the entire idea is revealed.
— G.R. Gopinath, Simply Fly
You can LOBBY anyone. It is the great equalizer." – Chief of Staff Russell Jackson
— Madam Secretary
Book publishers should change the communication from best sellers to the best impacts.What matters is the impact not the sold copies.
— kamil Toume
Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.
— Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Lack of communication can drive a spike between two people wider than any physical distance.
— Mark W. Boyer
The magic moment in life is when your soul just connects with another soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
There are a lot of conventions, a vocabulary and a set of practices and assumptions that underlie most professional book design. Since design is important to the eventual success of your book whether you attempt to do it yourself or hire it out, it pays to know something about those conventions and assumptions. After all, we don’t want anything getting in the way of your communication with your readers. You’ve got a message for them, a story to tell, or ideas to spread. That’s what’s important.
— Joel Friedlander, The Self-Publisher's Ultimate Resource Guide
If Patience is the Key of Success then Communication is the master key of it
— Haris Siddique
Communication can be sent or received through verbal or nonverbal cues.
— Asa Don Brown, Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace, Finding Solutions that Work
Communication is the lifeblood of an organization.
— Asa Don Brown, Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace, Finding Solutions that Work
CS Lewis's humor supported his exposition but never dominated or diminished it.
— Greg Cootsona
Intrapersonal communication is a reflection of our daily messages.
— Asa Don Brown, Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace, Finding Solutions that Work
Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying he'd uttered during the day, taking simple-hearted pleasure in some of his best hits.
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence.
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Protests can sometimes, necessarily, simplify things.
— Madam Secretary
I have a couple of favorite relatives, but because they're so far away I tend to ignore them-even though they have mailboxes, email addresses and telephone numbers. Today, I'll get back in touch.
— Eileen & Jerry Spinelli
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.
— Stephen R. Covey
To speak much is one thing
—  to speak to the point another!
A key to healthy problem solving is good communication.
— Asa Don Brown, Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace, Finding Solutions that Work
Don’t talk to people you don’t want to talk to, and don’t talk about stuff you don’t want to talk about.
— Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Always best to start with violence and attempt communication second. People reacted more favorably when they knew you would snuff a few lives to get what you wanted... or for no reason whatsoever.
— Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption
Relationships are an art form created by two or more individuals who have similar or complementary visions, passions, and ambitions.
— Asa Don Brown, Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace, Finding Solutions that Work
Unhealthy relationships are most commonly lacking in the most essential of ingredient: healthy communication.
— Asa Don Brown, Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace, Finding Solutions that Work
Political thought is representative. I form an opinion by considering a given issue from different viewpoints, by making present to my mind the standpoints of those who are absent; that is, I represent them.… The more people's standpoints I have present in my mind while I am pondering a given issue, and the better I can imagine how I would feel and think if I were in their place, the stronger will be my capacity for representative thinking and the more valid my final conclusions, my opinion.
— Hannah Arendt
J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
To communicate is truly a gift. It is a wondrous ability of your amazing human body, the ability that allows us to connect with other humans to give meaning to our lives. I will argue that it is what makes us human.
— Kathleen Depperschmidt, The Tip of Your Tongue: A Speech Therapist Tribute to the Power of Communication Lost and Found
...if the content of your speech is not authentic, talking or texting on a device doesn't mean you're communicating with another person.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Communicating
Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Communication is not about the sender or receiver
—  it's about the sending. And that's done with language.
Poetry of World War I, at least in its lyrical mode, was itself the last flowering of the Age of Innocence that preceded the war, that the horrors of the trenches sparked the final blossoming, as friction gives rise to fire; that the daily nightmare unfolding before the soldiers sharpened their sense of beauty, prophecy, and mission.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Communicating
Old marketing was dictation... new marketing is communication. Change from Convince & Convert to Converse & Convert!
— Ted Rubin
To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence.
— Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
There were other things,too, to ask him. Always she tries to be less forward. Always she tried to find the right thing to say and didn't trust the etiquette pendulum swinging in her head, so she simply said nothing, which was perceived either as painful shyness of haughtiness. Dasha never had that problem. She just said the first thing that came into her head. Tatiana knew she needed to rust her inner voice more. It was certainly loud enough
— Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman
Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive.
— Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.
— James Rozoff, The Association
God uses language to create and command us.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
This culture of distraction was nothing new. Christianity was born into one.
— Mark Sayers, Facing Leviathan: Leadership, Influence, and Creating in a Cultural Storm
Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.
— Joe Cawley
There is nothing quite as destructive to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the use of language that dismisses the way Jesus talks and prays and takes up instead the rhetoric of smiling salesmanship or vicious invective.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.
— Richard Brookhiser
We cannot all write like Lincoln or Shakespeare, but even the least gifted of us has the incredible instrument, our voice, to communicate the range of human emotions. Why would we deprive ourselves of that?
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
A diplomat who says “yes” means “maybe", a diplomat who says “maybe" means “no”, and a diplomat who says “no” is no diplomat.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Communication is an art and a meaningful conversation is a masterpiece.
— Jasz Gill
Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.
— Somali K Chakrabarti, Lei: A wreath for your soul