Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rowan Williams

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

Yoko Ono

You know harmony only exists in music-isn't that amazing? I think that if you see earth from very far away, the color is blue. That is very interesting because blue is the color of communication.

Yoko Ono

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

Yoko Ono

We mustn't be traditional in the way we communicate with people - especially with the Establishment. We should surprise people by saying new things in an entirely new way. Communication of that sort can have a fantastic power so long as you don't do only what they expect you to do.

Yoko Ono

We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish.

Yoko Ono

When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.

Yoko Ono

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Yoko Ono

In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There's no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns.

Yoko Ono

I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.

Yoko Ono

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

Yann Martel

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Wynton Marsalis

We all teach from that same frame of reference. We're like neighborhood - the people who have had the opportunity through this music to gain a platform and spread the message of this music, which is basically love in a form of communication that's honest and truthful.

Wolf Blitzer

You have to be precise. You have to be specific, but you want to be accurate. That is first and foremost. You want to be on top of the story, but words do matter.

Zygmunt Bauman

We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

Zig Ziglar

In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best.

Our communication is better, ... Everyone knows where they have to be.

Right now, shelter, meals, water and mental health counseling are things people are in need of. But we're not always hearing exactly what the needs are, because we've had spotty communication with our people on the ground.

Stephen Smith

Parks are in the middle of neighborhoods. Otherwise there's not much option to put in a communication site.

Part of it was turnovers and our communication in not talking to each other.

August Krogh

In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.

Pat Roberts

In my view it would have been far worse for these pilots to turn away from victims in their vicinity in order to complete their stated mission as foreseen by commanders 100 miles away and out of communication with a growing crisis,

Joseph Badaracco

Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.

Henry B. Eyring

We need not just one flash of light and comfort, but we need the continuing blessing of communication with God.

John Ambrose Fleming

There is abundant evidence that the Bible, though written by men, is not the product of the human mind. By countless multitudes it has always been revered as a communication to us from the Creator of the Universe.

We are currently in communication with various states, and we are evaluating each individual state's situation. At the conclusion of that evaluation, we'll determine what type of actions, if any, should be taken.

Marshall McLuhan

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener

Kenny G

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Debbie Stabenow

The lack of this communication for America's first responders has put them and put all of us -- all of our communities -- in danger,

Paulo Coelho

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

L. Ron Hubbard

Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.

Leonard Mlodinow

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

Lily King

I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.

Leo Rosten

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.