3,244 Quotes About Communication

The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.

Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.

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

No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another

Ask any writer or filmmaker or painter just how much of a given project truly represents what he/she envisioned it to be. You'll hear twenty percent...ten...five...few will claim more than thirty.The master of one's medium is the degree to which that percentage can be increased, the degree to which the artist's ideas survive the journey -- or, for some artists, the degree to which the inevitable detours are made useful by the artist.

Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.