“It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.”
— Edward Sapir
Author: Edward Sapir
Category: communication
Tags: communication, Edward Sapir
“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”
— Virginia Satir
Author: Virginia Satir
Category: communication
Tags: communication, Virginia Satir
“Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.”
— John Boyd Orr
Author: John Boyd Orr
Category: communication
Tags: communication, John Boyd Orr
“The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.”
— William Graham Sumner
Author: William Graham Sumner
Category: communication
Tags: communication, William Graham Sumner
“States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.”
— John Shimkus
Author: John Shimkus
Category: communication
Tags: communication, John Shimkus
“Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.”
— Frank Luntz
Author: Frank Luntz
Category: communication
Tags: communication, Frank Luntz
“The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.”
— Mayim Bialik
Author: Mayim Bialik
Category: communication
Tags: communication, Mayim Bialik
“The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security… and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.”
— Warren Rudman
Author: Warren Rudman
Category: communication
Tags: communication, Warren Rudman
“The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.”
— Henry Miller
Author: Henry Miller
Category: communication
Tags: communication, Henry Miller
“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.”
— Anne Spencer
Author: Anne Spencer
Category: communication
Tags: communication, Anne Spencer
“Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.”
— Kenneth L. Pike
Author: Kenneth L. Pike
Category: communication
Tags: communication, Kenneth L. Pike