communication
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
9 quotes from John Cheever
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
15 more wisdom & wit from Christopher Morley
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
5 other quotes from Theodore White
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
18 quotes from Pearl S. Buck
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
4 quotes from Kenneth L. Pike
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
5 thoughts from John Drinkwater
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
18 quotes from Marcel Proust
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
19 other thoughts from Marshall McLuhan
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
5 more thoughts from William Bernbach
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
50 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
5 more quotes from Leonard Bernstein
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
23 more quotes from T. S. Eliot
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
2 other quotes from Florence Scovel Shinn
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
19 more thoughts from H. G. Wells
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
14 more quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
2 more wisdom & wit from Michael Faraday
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.
24 quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
9 more quotes from J. B. Priestley
The desire to write grows with writing.
15 other thoughts from Desiderius Erasmus
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
2 views from Faith Baldwin
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
3 views from Benjamin Banneker
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert
The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
2 more sayings from Mary Martin
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.
2 thoughts from Mary Martin
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
23 views from Walt Disney
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
11 more wisdom & wit from Rebecca West
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
3 wisdom & wit from Frank Moore Colby
Writing is a communication.
5 more views from Theodore Sturgeon
One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.
2 other thoughts from Georges Simenon
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
14 other sayings from Bertolt Brecht
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
13 quotes from Ansel Adams
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
32 wisdom & wit from Michel de Montaigne
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
26 more quotes from Charles Dickens
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
2 more thoughts from Hans Hofmann
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
27 quotes from James Madison
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
6 thoughts from Leo Rosten
Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
6 wisdom & wit from Leo Rosten
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
6 quotes from Rollo May