There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. - Michel De Montaigne No pleasure has any savor for me without communication. - Michel De Montaigne

[F]or though a very few hours spent in hard labour of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects than can really be in common between any two rational creatures, yet with lovers it is different. Between them no subject is finished, no communication is even made, till it has been made at least twenty times over. - Jane Austen When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help. - Kathleen Blanco There is no communication in this world except between equals. - Ken Burns I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't. - Thomas Gold No blame, no hate - why no communication? - Charlaine Harris As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communica...

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. - Walt Disney Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73) - Rollo May This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country's working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few. - Aldous Huxley Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard. - Scott Mccloud Mass...

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. - Faith Baldwin We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic. - Emma Thompson

Without trust and respect, only fear and distrust of others' motives and intentions are left. Without trust and respect between parties, it is nearly impossible to find good solutions to effective communication. - Deborah A Beasley Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. - Jim Rohn Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. - Stephen Covey

I think we both need to work on our communication skills. (Kiara) I tried that once. (Nykyrian) And? (Kiara) Darling told me that I could never hold a job as a suicide counselor or hostage negotiator. He said my failure rate would become the stuff of legends. (Nykyrian) - Sherrilyn Kenyon Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. - Jim Rohn ...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well. - Stephen Covey As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently. - Jim Evans You know, Quincy Jones was a great ment...

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors. - Steve Buscemi Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love. - Laura Esquivel

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion. - Stephen King The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success. - James Cash Penney