Means Of Communication Quotes

• Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

  Leo Rosten

  Communication, Mean, Thinking

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book compiled by Laurence J. Peter, p. 100, 1979.

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• The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

  J. B. Priestley

  Communication, Mean, Talking

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• To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

  John Marshall

  Powerful, Communication, Mean

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• Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

  Chris Cavanaugh

  Life Changing, Communication, Mean

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• A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Communication, Mean, Ideas

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• Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

  Simone Weil

  God, Wall, Communication

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.200, U of Nebraska Press

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• A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Communication, Mean, Power

  "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea, (p. 595), 2012.

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• When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

  Karl Jaspers

  Communication, Mean, Purpose

  "Man in the Modern Age". Book by Karl Jaspers, 1933.

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• The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Depressing, Communication, Mean

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.73, RosettaBooks

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• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "OpenGL Shading Language". Book by Randi J. Rost, 2006.

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• Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

  John P. Kotter

  Inspirational, Communication, Mean

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• Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

  C. S. Lewis

  Communication, Writing, Mean

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• A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Moving, Book, Communication

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• Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to the point where we are now ready to wipe ourselves off the earth. But I think that all the arts are needed, and sports too, and cooking, food, and all these different ways of communication. Smiles, looking into eyes directly, all these different means of communication are needed to save this world. But certainly a great melody

  Pete Seeger

  Sports, Art, Communication

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• What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

  Norman Cousins

  Communication, Mean, Men

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• Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.

  John Dewey

  Education, Communication, Mean

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world

  Laurence J. Peter

  Communication, Mean, Worry

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• Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Sports, Country

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• Advertising is in essence simply a means of communication through mass media which is available to anyone who can pay for it. It is, in this sense, rather like electricity, which can be used to work a refrigerator or a dentist's drill.

  John Treasure

  Business, Communication, Mean

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• America Singer, you get back here." He ran in front of me, wrapping an arm around my waist as we stood, chest to chest. "Tell me," he whispered. I pinched my lips together. "Fine, then I shall have to rely on other means of communication." Without any warning, he kissed me.

  Kiera Cass

  Communication, Mean, America

  Kiera Cass (2013). “The Elite”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Communication, Mean, Use

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• As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36)

  Jon Stewart

  Book, Communication, Mean

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• The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Attitude, Communication, Mean

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• 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.

  Walt Disney

  Appreciation, Communication, Mean

  "OpenGL Shading Language". Book by Randi J. Rost, 2006.

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• Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

  Theodore White

  Communication, Mean, Power

  Theodore Harold White (1973). “The making of the President, 1972”, Scribner

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