Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on...

What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.

We’ve been getting used to each other’s style of play. Hockey is a game of communication. As we’ve played more with each other, the entire play of the team has improved by leaps and bounds...

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Mungu humwambia mtu kitu cha kusema na mtu huwambia wenzake kile ambacho Mungu amemwambia aseme. Lakini utajuaje kama Mungu amekuchagua wewe kusema au kufanya kitu? Mungu atakwambia kupitia Roho Mtakatifu, na utajisikia msukumo mkubwa wa...

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Music is the great unifier. It doesn’t matter which country you’re in or what language is being spoken, the fans just magically seem to get it. They share a common goal of love and celebration...

I don’t know how to say it without saying it, so I’ll just not say it. Or I could show it, because that’s the only way to make love visible.

Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry – the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.

To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from “What information do I need to convey?” to “What questions do I want my audience to ask?

It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them.

For though a very few hours spent in the hard labour of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects than can really be in common between any two rational creatures, yet with lovers it is different....

Make it so obvious even a computer couldn’t be confused.

The assumptions that propagandists are rational, in the sense that they follow their own propaganda theories in their choice of communications, and that the meanings of propagandists’ communications may differ for different people reoriented the...

Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say.

I’m Valerie Rye,’ she said, savoring the words. ‘It’s all right for you to talk to me.

Words have power.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

Language is not law; it is in fact a lot like music. Speech is jazz – first you learn the basic rules, and then you become good enough to improvise all the time. Writing is...

Noise is any pattern we don’t understand. […] If we perceive something as noise, it’s most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.

I know everything I need to about a person by their hands. Eyes may be the window to ones soul but hands disclose the being.

God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something through to somebody.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

What had happened in these ten years for there suddenly be so much to say — so much so pressing that it couldn’t wait to be said? Everywhere I walked, somebody was approaching me talking...

Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can’t figure out how in the hell to communicate with people.

Your job is to get off your self righteous butt and start reaching out to the difficult people because my ministry wasn’t about a bunch of nice people getting together once a week to sing...

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

It’s not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It’s about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don’t...

There was a little breakdown in communication.

In every one of your relationships, you are on a continuum between intimacy and separation. You stand on a slide that tilts you toward either intimacy or separateness. Exactly where you stand at any given...

All of our headsets went out. We had no communication whatsoever. Fortunately, we had a cell phone. That probably cost us about a thousand bucks in charges. Anyway, that’s how we did it.

There was no communication for less than 60 seconds. Jay Street took over in less than a minute.

Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life...

Thoreau and Huxley calmly state what I have spent years trying to articulate, and never found the words for doing so. To read the words of these great men is to read the highest expression...

I spoke like a spoke on a wheel, as I went around and around without actually saying what I wanted to say. I was love flustered.

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.

The phone collapsed distances, just as the radio did, and, like the radio, it relied on the miracle of imagination: one had to concentrate deeply, plunge headlong into it.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Good communication may not make a risky deal safe, but poor communication may sell benefits of a good deal.

yes, I heard you” is the meaning it has in Japan.

If you speak three languages you’re trilingual. If you speak two languages you’re bilingual. If you speak the language of the opposite sex, you can communicate.

Or maybe this wasn’t a human-faerie translation problem at all. Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they’re communicating on five levels....

Art is communication.

93/7 Rule: 93% of communication occurs through nonverbal behavior & tone; only 7% of communication takes place through the use of words.

She won’t know it if I’m not say it.” Say that 3 times, and you should know what’s the main problem.

I’m a realist in the fact it’s going to be loud and communication is going to be an issue. But I’m not going into the game saying it’s a disadvantage for us. Besides, a fast...

They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another can also re-member. Why would they ever develop language? Why would they ever...

He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get through most of his days on stock answers to stock questions, he thought. Once he catches onto the...