262 private quotes tagged communication

“One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.” — Billy Corgan

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“Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.” — Leo Rosten

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“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.” — Benjamin Banneker

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“Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.” — Earl Wilson

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“The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!” — Noam Chomsky

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“We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.” — Emma Thompson

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“I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.” — Sarah McLachlan

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“The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.” — Michael Faraday

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“Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting it's something far, far deeper than that.” — Evelyn Glennie

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“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.” — Alton Brown

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“I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.” — Dick Wolf

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“To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.” — Alan Greenspan

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“Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.” — Paul J. Meyer

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“And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.” — Marc Andreessen

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

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“What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.” — Kenny G

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“The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.” — Harold S. Geneen

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“There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.” — Annie Leibovitz

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“The art of communication is the language of leadership.” — James Humes

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“I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.” — Stephen Sondheim

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“I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.” — Lewis Thomas

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“The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.” — Patti Smith

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“In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'” — James Blunt

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“People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.” — Yoko Ono

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“Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.” — Deborah Tannen

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