Communication Quotes

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. (Peter Drucker)
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. View quote
Anthony Robbins
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. View quote
Joseph Priestley
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which humans communicate than by the content of the communication. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. View quote
J. B. Priestley
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind. View quote
Rockwell Kent
You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful? View quote
James Tiptree, Jr
Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them. View quote
Leo Rosten
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. (Bertolt Brecht)
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. View quote
Walt Disney
The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another. View quote
M. Scott Peck
There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear. View quote
Frank Luntz
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing. View quote
Alva Myrdal
My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships. View quote
Jada Pinkett Smith
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago. View quote
John Boyd Orr
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. View quote
Eugenio Montale
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it. View quote
Alton Brown
Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore, I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication. (Groucho Marx)
The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world. View quote
Georges Simenon
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. View quote
William Ellery Channing
Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can't we be friendly? View quote
Jeremy Irons
Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it. View quote
William S. Burroughs