The most flexible mode of expression is dialogue.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place.
People will believe a big lie sooner than they will a little lie, and if you repeat it often enough, people will, sooner or later, believe it.
A bad reader is like a bad translator. He interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
People change and forget to tell each other.
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures — in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures — in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place.
People will believe a big lie sooner than they will a little lie, and if you repeat it often enough, people will, sooner or later, believe it.
People change and forget to tell each other.
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.
Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
We live in a world in which we have more diatribe and less dialogue.
The medium is the Message.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said.
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
It often shows a fine command of language to say nothing.
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each person as he/she sees him/herself; each one as the other sees him/her; and each person as he/she really is.