Less Communication Quotes

#1. [on Rouge] This is a film about communication that disappears. We have better and better tools and less and less communication with each other. We only exchange information.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#2. Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feelings and needs. Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

Riane Eisler

#3. Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.

Al Ries

#4. I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.

Ben Lerner

#5. If we don't tell people about our needs, it is much less likely they will be met.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#6. Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

Leo Rosten

#7. The more we talk about the past, the less we heal from it.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#8. G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.

A. J. Jacobs

#9. Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

Criss Jami

#10. We may well find that if we are to fulfill God's mandate on earth, we will need to communicate less often so we can communicate more. We will need to forsake the ease and the pace of quantity for the reflective significance of quality.

Tim Challies

#11. Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say.

Kelli Jae Baeli

#12. The less people know, the more they yell.

Seth Godin

#13. There's less wear and tear. It allows the heart to pump with greater efficiency so there's less strain. When we really can feel a positive feeling, that's when the heart's communication becomes the best.

Howard Martin

#14. Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.

Andy Stanley

#15. The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

J.B. Priestley

#16. I find that often simple words say all that needs to be said in less time, using less energy, with all the details wanted- fully in tact. Love it.

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#17. Anything that causes you to doubt, to raise either objections or just concerns about it - and they always put the information right at the bottom of the screen so you can't really read it - every time you see a company do that, the ad becomes less effective. The communication becomes less effective.

Frank Luntz

#18. Think first. Talk less. Start today.

Charles R. Swindoll

#19. The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.

Albert Einstein

#21. All communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic, religious, or class backgrounds, even just being male or female - all result in different ways of talking ...

Deborah Tannen

#22. You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#23. Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H

Donald Altman

#24. Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

Pat Summitt

#25. More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

Studs Terkel

#26. I think each film I do has less and less dialogue. It really helps a lot for foreign sales, because when I go to Europe, there's very little problem with communication. All the gags are visual. The music they can understand, and it helps communicate a lot better.

Bill Plympton

#27. We're in the world of communications more and more, tough we're in communication less and less.

Wright Morris

#28. No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

Ray Kurzweil

#29. My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.

Biz Stone

#30. Once you can clearly describe what you are reacting to, free of your interpretation or evaluation of it, other people are less likely to be defensive when they hear it.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#31. Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#32. We have come to discover what we suspect is a new political mindset emerging among a younger generation of political leaders socialized on Internet communications. Their politics are less about right versus left and more about centralized and authoritarian versus distributed and collaborative.

Jeremy Rifkin

#33. Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they are left with only an illusion of connection. This is the intimacy they so ardently seek but with these coping skills find so elusive.

David W. Earle

#34. Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.

Fred Rogers

#35. The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

Marya Mannes

#36. I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This doesn't mean I do not want to share with people.

Michael Hersch

#37. In this part of the world, the more you are pleased to see a person, the less is he pleased to see you; whereas if you are disagreeable, he will grow pleasant visibly, his countenance expanding into wider amiability the more your own is stiff and sour.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#38. If globalization is to succeed, it must succeed for poor and rich alike. It must deliver rights no less than riches. It must provide social justice and equity no less than economic prosperity and enhanced communication.

Kofi Annan

#39. Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure; it has undermined the safety of the entire internet.

Luke Harding

#40. Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

Rowan Williams

#41. If we don't communicate, we certainly can't get much done and if we don't communicate authentically, what we get done is less effective.

Michele Jennae