In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
The more technologically advanced our society becomes, the more we need to go back to the basic fundamentals of human communication.
Social media is such a key organizing and communication tool, and I’ve made a major commitment to use it as a way to make the legislative process as transparent as possible.
I’m a defender first and foremost – blocks, headers, vital tackles, or even just the communication side of it, which is massive but doesn’t really get recognised.
There is only one rule for being a good talker – learn to listen.
I know when I step into midfield I have to sharpen my feet up and be more aware of what’s around me, at centre back it’s more about timing, positioning and communication.
Acting is communication. It’s giving and receiving.
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn’t exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
With docs, there’s often a very direct communication between the filmmaker and the audience. With narrative movies, we leave it a little bit more open.
I was in college for organizational communication and politics because I was just fascinated by influence. I wondered how people have influence, not because I wanted to inspire the world – yet.
At the turn of the twentieth century, board games were becoming increasingly commonplace in middle-class homes. In addition, more and more inventors were discovering that the games were not just a pastime but also a means of communication.
My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.
The Internet has given us 10 or 15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting and tweeting. I see it all as part of an expanding array of linguistic possibilities.
For a long time in my adolescence, comedy was the only tool I had for communication and dealing with the world and dealing with people – I didn’t know any other lens in which to do it.
The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.
The Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession posed daunting new challenges for central banks around the world and spurred innovations in the design, implementation, and communication of monetary policy.
Writing only leads to more writing.
Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.
We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there’s humanity everywhere, and that’s what I’m trying to do.
I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
In the corporate world, there is no ground more fertile for appearing smart than the rich earth that is electronic communication. Your email writing, sending and ignoring skills are just as important as your nodding skills, and even more important than your copying and pasting skills.
A communication highway without content is inconceivable.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Contractions, ‘U’ for ‘you’ and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient – but we wouldn’t want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?
If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not walk in there eating a ham sandwich unless I wanted to be rejected so I could have an excuse to cop out.
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.
Language is a virus from outer space.
People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there’s a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.
I wasn’t rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn’t a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
Given a chance, I would love to host a television show as I have good communication skills and am fluent in Hindi, English and Urdu.
The decisions we make about communication security today will determine the kind of society we live in tomorrow.
Trying to speak English, to learn what my teammates were saying, to learn what I wanted to say – basketball, you have to learn the way to play here and get used to your teammates, but for me the toughest part was communication.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
And it’s absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating – and the levels of the communication that I’ve seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don’t we have that here?
Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow – think of the epistolary novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.
All the small things matter. Communication. It doesn’t matter what you are doing. You have to be on the same page.
After all, it’s the future of business communication that we’re looking toward.
Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.
If the expansion of a global legal regime for communication technologies gains traction, the effects to the global economy as well as our individual liberties will be severe.
‘Communication Breakdown’ – it was punchy and direct, with a real attitude that was different to other bands going around.
With clearly defined roles and a focus on communication, it’s much easier to make your company come across as well-organized and on top of things – because it actually is.
It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It’s a different way of communication.
That’s the job of a quarterback, to go out there and be confident with the communication of the play, in the huddle and with my play.
We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It’s not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it’s about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we’re there.
Every single means of communication amongst the public, the government has antennae into, to find out who is liable to be sympathetic and who is not liable to be sympathetic, and I think this has probably been going on since all channels of communication began.
Just so everyone knows, we’re not a photo-sharing company. I don’t see photos on ‘Instagram’ as art. They’re much more about communication.
All communication on today’s networks are being monitored by government agencies and private companies.
‘The Conversation’ will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
The idea of applying psychology or behavioural sciences to communication is not a new one. It’s very old behavioural economics. If it gives you some additional insights – so be it.
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.
