The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one’s own solitude, how to communicate with others.

If you want meaning for your brand or company, dare to embrace conflict

fine” has like seventy meanings and depending on voice inflexion can actually mean ‘If I’m questioned again I’ll stab you in your sleep’.

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier...

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren’t quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. And while I occasionally step over the line and into the world of the melodramatic, it is what I must do in...

A crime scene is a silent witness that speaks louder and clearer than any human. Just ask Helen Keller.

I went to visit my dad. He didn’t say a word to me. Or if he did, I couldn’t hear it through the grass, the dirt, and his coffin lid.

If I already intuitively “get” what you’re trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that what sounds like common sense often isn’t…. It’s your job, as...

Just as you can’t rehearse your way to success, you can’t design your way there either.

All the time when I speak to you, even now, I’m saying not precisely what I think, but what will impress you and make you respond. That’s so even between us – and how much...

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

Jeder ist immer erreichbar. Die ganze Welt beschleunigt sich, alles ist dringend, und wo alles dringend ist, ist nichts mehr dringend, und damit schlittern wir in eine Bedeutungslosigkeit hinein.

the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

By holding transparent talks, we can find a way that Japan can accept. We want to deepen exchanges and communication with Japan,

The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired and how the world was to be understood. “Knowing” the...

To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority of the world’s humans either speak and something primitive or speak...

Baby, sometimes what I’m thinking doesn’t translate into words. You’re going to have to badger them out of me until I get better at this, okay?

[Guglielmo] Marconi discovered global communication because of reflections from the ionosphere. Back at the turn of the century, he sent signals from England to the United States by reflecting them from the ionosphere.

It’s up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don’t even want to use language you and I know or can...

I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.

I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all.

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good...

Don’t assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.

You don’t have to explain something you haven’t said.

Once you open your home to nursing, you essentially become the employer of a small staff, even if you aren’t signing the paychecks. As in any workplace, the staff needs to know the rules and...

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that...

The turning point for effective communication is actually hearing what is being said, rather than hearing what you want to hear instead.

When I have too much information or too many choices, I often get confused.•When one wants to encourage another to learn what ”I know that you don’t know,” encourage them to engage in deep thought...

We have developed communications systems to permit man on earth to talk with man on the moon. Yet mother often cannot talk with daughter, father to son, black to white, labour with management or democracy...

Be a good listener. With rapt attention, let every communication or conversation you have with your mentor, friends or even strangers be well understood.

I consider conversations with people to be mind exercises, but I don’t want to pull a muscle, so I stretch a lot. That’s why I’m constantly either rolling my eyes or yawning.

The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other,...

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman’s manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.

The ultimate relationship is within thyself, knowing that all other relationships are a projection or a reflection of our ability or inability to love.

Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing quadriplegic. But my communication system disqualifies repartee: the keenest rapier grows dull and falls flat...

Look for enterprises to explore the benefits of federating their communication networks.

All power lies in free expression.

This shows failures of communication at every level.

Remarkably, studies of visual perception have found that two-dimensional images projected onto the retina only achieve full dimensionality as a result of our perception: we infer the third dimension of depth. Sadly, though, as the...

It’s tough not being in the same building, just for communication purposes. The only time I get to see my players is at practice or games.

It’s as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was...

I think Ben saw Nick coming out, and there was no communication. Nick thought he was going to pick it up. I think we got a little tentative and we didn’t even have a play.

Listening to our kids with an open heart & mind is the strongest way to build a relationship with them – especially when they’re wrong.