Quotes about Communication

“States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.”

“What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.”

“The whole information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure must be regarded as an 'ecosystem' in which everything is interconnected. It functions as a whole; it must be defended as a whole.”

“Social systems have values - arguments baked into their design. For example, Twitter's core argument seems to be, 'Everything should be public, and messages should find the largest audience possible.' Snapchat's might be, 'Communication should be private and ephemeral.'”

“Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.”

“For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.”

“Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.”

“I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.”

“Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?”

“My problems with 'Bonanza' were problems of communication. What we discussed would be, never was. I thought it would be a sophisticated show. Instead it never went beyond the comic strip level.”

“The press is the enemy.”

“Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.”

“Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.”

“'Communication Breakdown' - it was punchy and direct, with a real attitude that was different to other bands going around.”

“Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.”

“I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin.”

“The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.'”

“My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.”

“Language is memory and metaphor.”

“What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because audience members are constantly part of the experience. What they say in their body language, what they say in their eyes, what they sing with me... it's an 'us,' and there's a communication that's like... it's like church, man.”

“Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.”