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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Rockwell Kent

  Art, Communication, Mean

  "It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent". Book by Rockwell Kent, 1955.

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• English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

  Robert McCrum

  Communication, Mean, Microsoft

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• Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

  Sidney Nolan

  Art, Communication, Mean

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• As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of communication, the refusal of some to understand, or outright refusal to learn about other human beings is based on fear. Fear is what keeps people apart.

  Piri Thomas

  Fear, Struggle, Communication

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• Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.

  Ralph Nader

  Communication, Mean, Mouths

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• The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want.

  David Bowie

  Book, Communication, Mean

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• In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

  Vernon Reid

  Art, Communication, Mean

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• Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

  Nancy Duarte

  Powerful, Communication, Mean

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• The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.

  John Ralston Saul

  Communication, Mean, Shields

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Communication, Mean

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Orlando”, p.122, OUP Oxford

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• [A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they printed and made physical.

  Geoffrey Batchen

  Communication, Mean, Snapshots

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• The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.

  R. Carlos Nakai

  Communication, Mean, Expression

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