Communication Quotes - Page 36

• 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

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• 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

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• We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Satisfaction, Looks, Compromise

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

  John Banham

  Philosophy, Able, Firsts

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• 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

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• The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Keys, Soul, Theatre

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• The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Long, People

  Erwin W. Lutzer (1977). “Failure: The Back Door to Success”, Moody Publishers

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• Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Children, Compassion, Punishment

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• Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Community, May, Computer

  Robert D. Putnam (2001). “Bowling Alone”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological co-operation depends directly or indirectly on whether or not we are wiling to wait for one another, perhaps lamenting, yet smiling with tears in our eyes.

  Karl Barth

  Eye, Waiting, Community

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• All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Thought Provoking, People

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• There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  War, Food, Writing

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• Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient.

  David Foster Wallace

  Insightful, Connections, Stories

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• Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.

  John Courtney Murray

  Confusion, Achievement, Disagreement

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• You should not say anything that you cannot put your totality behind. The total value of you is that whatever you say, you stick with it. When you don't stick with what you say, you have no value, and your decoration and your jewelry and your sex and your person have no value. Real communication is the faculty of a human that whatever you say, you stick with it.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Sex, Real, Say Anything

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• The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermonuclear weapons systems and soft drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudoevents, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century-sex and paranoia.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Sex, Moving

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• We have seen a growing mismatch between the command of media communication shown by the most talented politicians, and the halting, uneven progress which they can deliver through the machinery of government.

  Tom Bentley

  Government, Media, Political

  Tom Bentley (2001). “It's Democracy, Stupid: An Agenda for Self-government”, p.6, Demos

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• Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Relationship, Spiritual, Mind

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Mar 11, 2015

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• We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Energy, Realizing, Divine

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• It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future, we try to get a mental picture of what things will be like long before we have begun the journey. Visions are our windows on the world of tomorrow.

  James M. Kouzes

  Journey, Long, Vision

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (1987). “The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations”, Jossey-Bass, 1988

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• When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Compassion, People, Diagnosis

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• We will see beauty in the outer world when we are able to see beauty within ourselves. And this is the best thing we can do for ourselves and for the universe.

  Anita Moorjani

  World, Able, Beauty Within

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• When we're each aware of our own Magnificence, we don't feel the need to control others, and we won't allow ourselves to be controlled.

  Anita Moorjani

  Needs, Magnificence, Feels

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from Apr 27, 2012

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• When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Thinking, Talking

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• Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

  Publilius Syrus

  Sarcastic, Silence, Intellectual

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 914,

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