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Communication12 quotes
What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some man you just can’t reach. — Captain (Cool Hand Luke) · 1967The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. — St. Jerome · 394Never pain to tell thy love
Love that never told can be
For the gentle wind does move
Silently invisibly — William Blake · 1807I am not arguing with you-I am telling you. — James McNeill Whistler · 1890Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air. — John Bunyan · 1665In every house of marriage
there's room for an interpreter. — Stanley Kunitz · 1930All 12 quotes →Effective communication3 quotes
Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air. — John Bunyan · 1665Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. — Joel Barish · 2004So me think, why waste time say lot word, when few word do trick. — Kevin Malone · 2011Authority1 quote
What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some man you just can’t reach. — Captain (Cool Hand Luke) · 1967Brevity1 quote
So me think, why waste time say lot word, when few word do trick. — Kevin Malone · 2011Connecting with others1 quote
When I communicate my thought and my sentiments to a friend with whom I am in full sympathy, so that my feelings pass into him and I am conscious of what he feels, do I not live in his brain as well as in my own-most literally! — Charles Sanders Peirce · 1966Conversation1 quote
Ideal conversation is an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. — Emily Post · 1922Friendship1 quote
When I communicate my thought and my sentiments to a friend with whom I am in full sympathy, so that my feelings pass into him and I am conscious of what he feels, do I not live in his brain as well as in my own-most literally! — Charles Sanders Peirce · 1966Good conversation1 quote
Ideal conversation is an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. — Emily Post · 1922Housework and homemaking1 quote
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. — St. Jerome · 394Limits of language1 quote
Never pain to tell thy love
Love that never told can be
For the gentle wind does move
Silently invisibly — William Blake · 1807Love1 quote
Never pain to tell thy love
Love that never told can be
For the gentle wind does move
Silently invisibly — William Blake · 1807Marriage1 quote
In every house of marriage
there's room for an interpreter. — Stanley Kunitz · 1930Media1 quote
The medium is the message. — Marshall McLuhan · 1964Medium is the message1 quote
For over against the convenience of instantaneous communication is the fact that the great economical abstractions of writing, reading, and drawing, the media of reflective thought and deliberate action, will be weakened. — Lewis Mumford · 1934Relationships1 quote
In every house of marriage
there's room for an interpreter. — Stanley Kunitz · 1930Talking1 quote
Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. — Joel Barish · 2004Talking too much1 quote
Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. — Joel Barish · 2004Technological progress1 quote
For over against the convenience of instantaneous communication is the fact that the great economical abstractions of writing, reading, and drawing, the media of reflective thought and deliberate action, will be weakened. — Lewis Mumford · 1934The man1 quote
What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some man you just can’t reach. — Captain (Cool Hand Luke) · 1967