Communication

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COMMUNICATION: The most flexible mode of expression is dialogue. (Unknown Source)

COMMUNICATION: The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place. (Unknown Source)

COMMUNICATION: 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. (Unknown Source)

COMMUNICATION: A bad reader is like a bad translator. He interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally. (Unknown Source)

COMMUNICATION: People change and forget to tell each other. (Unknown Source)

COMMUNICATION: 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. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)

COMMUNICATION: The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. (Kin Hubbard, U.S. cartoonist and humorist, 1868-1930)

COMMUNICATION: A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally. (W.H. Auden, English-American poet, 1907-1973)

COMMUNICATION: The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

COMMUNICATION: 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. (Walter Savage Landor, English writer, poet, and activist, 1775-1864)

COMMUNICATION: People change and forget to tell each other. (Lillian Hellman, U.S. dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism, 1905-1984)

COMMUNICATION: No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. (Henry Brooks Adams, U.S. historian and descendant of two U.S. presidents, 1838-1918)

COMMUNICATION: 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. (John Updike, U.S. writer, and art and literary critic, 1932-2009)

COMMUNICATION: Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. (Chinese proverb)

COMMUNICATION: The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

COMMUNICATION: We live in a world in which we have more diatribe and less dialogue. (Murad Gharibian, U.S. dentist, Born 1969)

COMMUNICATION: The medium is the Message. (Marshall McLuhan, Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

COMMUNICATION: He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. (Elbert Hubbard, U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, 1856-1915)

COMMUNICATION: The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said. (Peter Drucker, Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005)

COMMUNICATION: A timid question will always receive a confident answer. (Charles John Darling, English lawyer, judge, and politician, 1849-1936)

COMMUNICATION: The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. (Karl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

COMMUNICATION: Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. (Neil deGrasse Tyson, U.S. astrophysicist and author, Born 1958)

COMMUNICATION: It often shows a fine command of language to say nothing. (Unknown source)

COMMUNICATION: 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. (William James, U.S. philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician, 1842-1910)