Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most...

Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.

The essence of communication is intention.

Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.

Words alone can effect great good as well as evil. A few apt words have swept candidates into office, ended as well as started wars, paved the way for peace and carried with them both...

Proper posture sends a positive message since 90% of all communication occures through body language and how you carry yourself.

Stay open to opportunity — you never know where your next important connection will be made.

As long as you have a Cell Phone you’re never alone

Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.

Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of...

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

Peace requires something far more difficult than revenge or merely turning the other cheek; it requires empathizing with the fears and unmet needs that provide the impetus for people to attack each other. Being aware...

Quality speaks by itself. Rightly communicated it creates Joy. Like an Infant needs no words to express to her mother. Any success of communication enhances beauty of both, which too needs no words to endorse.

Contradictions, in any communication, are the first stepping stones of mistrust

I phoned the Admiral back.’It’s no use, Admiral, the French speak nothing but French.’There was a short pause on the end of the line then his voice rattled into life like a sabre.’They’re lying, Tim!”What?”The...

In an age of sophistic over-complexity, simplicity can be useful.

Strategic communication is at the core of effective leadership. Through a leader’s use of verbal and written symbols employees are motivated or deflated, informed or confused, productive or apathetic. A leader’s ability to carve off...

You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don’t want the accountability of starting it.

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey.At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.

How different things might be if, rather than saying “I think I’m in love,” we were saying “I’ve connected with someone in a way that makes me think I’m on the way to knowing love.”...

Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously “born” in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed...

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

…and I know what it is that’s going to destroy the world. Lack of communication – reciprocal communication: cultural, political, intellectual – whatever you like. But more, it’s snobbery and self-deceit, which are artificial, protective...

They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing...

If you criticize others’ ideas, they will almost never use yours no matter how good they are.

Cut to the chase.” When I’m exasperated with all the verbal running around and skirting the issue, the last thing I want is more chasing. Let’s cut to the caught.

…my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks,...

The middle finger is a great body language tool for letting people know you’re upset. Poetry isn’t quite as effective in a fit of road rage.

Knocking on a door is so violent. Talk on the door. Try to get it to open up through communication, not violence.

We speak, and write, in one of the most diverse, gloriously ecumenical tongues on the planet. In English, there is a word or phrase for pretty much anything we want to say, and if there...

Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders them deaf when women say, “No thanks,” “Not interested,” or even “Fuck off, creep.

The overall purpose of human communication is – or should be – reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.

Be nice to people on your way up, because you’ll land on them on your way down

God has given you two ears–that should tell you something about the importance of listening.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don’t leave until you have captured its essence.

Most people find it difficult to understand purely verbal concepts. […] We employ visual and spatial metaphors for a great many everyday expressions […] We are so visually biased that we call our wisest men...

In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph...

What you look for in the world influences what materializes. What you perceive in the people around you influences how they show up.

A letter is the most basic—yet the most flexible—mode of correspondence, regardless of its subject matter.

Or maybe he means in a richer world the begging population is melting away. But no to that too. So maybe, perhaps, he means there aren’t many ‘human beings’ left to look, see, and understand...

Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A...

If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.

Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone’s friend, instead of saying goodbye forever.

In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum)...

J’ai entendu tant de raisonnements qui ont failli me tourner la tête, et qui ont tourné suffisamment d’autres têtes pour les faire consentir à l’assassinat, que j’ai compris que tout le malheur des hommes venait...

The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for...

Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don’t find under most other circumstances.