3,244 Quotes About Communication

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.

Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.

Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive.

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 somewhat more like classical composition, where established forms and conditions will hold greater sway.

He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart.

Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.

When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid; I figure it's a sure sign that the animal has somehow outfoxed them