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Communication |
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Quotations
 | If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 24 likes |
 | It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak and another to hear. — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American writer 9 likes |
 | The medium is the message. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 8 likes |
 | Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications. — Umberto Eco, 1932-2016, Italian writer 6 likes |
| The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 5 likes |
 | The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation. — Northcote Parkinson, 1909-1993, British historian 5 likes |
 | Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 4 likes |
 | I’m the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters. — Donald Trump, 1946-, President of the USA 4 likes |
 | A wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 4 likes |
 | The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 4 likes |
 | The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman 4 likes |
 | I send notes. I'm not a chambermaid whom you can ring at every moment. Today, you know, most people act like they work at a switchboard in a hotel. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 4 likes |
 | Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 4 likes |
 | I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 3 likes |
 | I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 3 likes |
 | In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 3 likes |
 | The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 3 likes |
 | A 100 years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 3 likes |
 | Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 3 likes |
 | I have always been fond of the West African proverb “Speak softly and carry a big stick”; you will go far. — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909] 2 likes |
 | When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 2 likes |
 | Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 2 likes |
| The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
 | For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. |
 | Art is the shortest way from man to man. |
 | The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. |
 | He who controls the media controls the minds of the public. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | I speak to the heart more than to the ear. This is what explains my success. Because everyone has a heart, and not everyone has an ear. |
 | What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. |
| Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
| The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
| Headlines are icons, not literature. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
| The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | By announcing good news, we make ourselves friendly. By announcing bad ones, we make ourselves important: choose. |
 | Tears are a form of communication – like speech – and require a listener. |
 | Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. |
 | False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus. |
| When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. |
Funny Quotes
 | Radio is called a medium because it is rare that anything is well done. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 3 likes |
 | If you have a message, call western union. — Sam Goldwyn, 1879-1974, American film producer 2 likes |
 | Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Stupid Quotes
 | This “telephone” has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. — Western Union internal memo, 1876 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | I talk to you about garlics and you respond about onions. Εγώ σκόροδα σοι λὲγω, συ δε κρόμμυα αποκρίνει. — Αρχαία παροιμιακή φράση 9 likes |
 | Respond to everyone. Πάσιν αποκρίνου. — Periander of Corinth, 668-584 BC, tyrant of Corinth 4 likes |
 | Say something a little less educated and more apprehensible. Αμαθέστερον πως ειπέ και σαφέστερον. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Frogs 3 likes |
Proverbs
 | Bad news travels fast. 3 likes |
Special Quotes
 | Connecting People. — Slogan of Nokia 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | What we've got here is failure to communicate. — from the film Cool Hand Luke (1967) 4 likes |
 | E.T. phone home. — from the film E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 4 likes |
