Communication Quotes - Page 35

• When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  People, Killing, Superficial

  7 Copy quote

• I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Thinking, Internet, Should

  4 Copy quote

• Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

  Gary Holland

  Art, Feelings, Age

  5 Copy quote

• The more we talk about the past, the less we heal from it.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Past, Nonviolent Communication, Heal

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise”, p.6, PuddleDancer Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

  Abraham Maslow

  Block, Needs, Dishonesty

  "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow (p. 23), 1954.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

  Allan Bloom

  Greek, Special, Taste

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Retribution, Nonviolent Communication, Plans

  4 Copy quote

• If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Philosophy, Soul

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.57, Beacon Press

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Singing is the lowest form of communication.

  Homer

  Singing, Form, Lowest

  9 Copy quote

• Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Self, Judgment, Prophecy

  11 Copy quote

• Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Men, Cliche, Banality

  90 Copy quote

• In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Personality, Support, Technique

  "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era". Book by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, 1970.

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

  Robert Venturi

  Space, Should, Modernism

  62 Copy quote

• It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of course; simultaneity is identity. But to our perceptions, that simultaneity will function as a transmission, a sending. So we will be able to use it to talk between worlds, without the long waiting for the message to go and the reply to return that electromagnetic impulses require. It is really a very simple matter. Like a kind of telephone.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Winning, Simple, Two

  5 Copy quote

• Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Enemy, Conflict, Reason

  7 Copy quote

• Getting in touch with unmet needs is important to the healing process.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Healing, Important, Needs

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise”, p.36, PuddleDancer Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

  Cherrie Moraga

  People, Form, Theater

  9 Copy quote

• The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

  Alain Badiou

  Real, Opposites, Ethics

  Alain Badiou (2002). “Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil”, p.52, Verso

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• A difficult message to hear is an opportunity to enrich someone's life.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Opportunity, Messages, Difficult

  6 Copy quote

• Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Expression, Criticism, Needs

  8 Copy quote

• Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no longer the same, it's nourished by other myths, it sells extremely well, it has ridiculed good sense and it's spreading its terrifying power.

  Ennio Flaiano

  Media, Shining, Stupidity

  20 Copy quote

• You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

  Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

  Thinking, People, Want

  7 Copy quote

• As we learn to speak from the heart we are changing the habits of a lifetime.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Heart, Speak, Lifetime

  5 Copy quote

• I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

  John Banham

  Philosophy, Able, Firsts

  4 Copy quote

• I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in conference, are adaptable. They quickly get the other fellow's view. They are more eager to do this than to express their own ideas. Also, they state their own point of view convincingly.

  John Hallock, Jr.

  Men, Views, Ideas

  4 Copy quote