Quotes About Communicating

#1. My definition of prayer is simply communicating with God. It's a love relationship first and foremost. Prayer is baring your soul to the One who loved you before you even knew of Him and letting Him speak to your heart.

Stormie O'martian

#2. Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

Stephen Hawking

#3. Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.

Ed O'Brien

#4. I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.

Trevor Dunn

#5. Brands were a by-product of having great products and communicating them well to people. Power stations that generate a lot of electricity probably have a lot of steam coming out of the chimneys. That doesn't mean to say that the engineers stand around working out how to make more steam.

Hans Snook

#6. If quantum entanglement is true, if related particles react in similar or opposite ways even when separated by tremendous distances, then it is obvious that the whole world is alive and communicating in ways we do not fully understand.

Christian Wiman

#7. Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Mark Twain

#8. With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#9. Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

Eric Drooker

#10. The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

Betsy Lerner

#11. In my experience, in this industry, the things that have been breakthrough have all been about connecting human beings to each other, communicating with each other.

Renee James

#12. The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.

Giacomo Puccini

#13. And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

Emma Thompson

#14. Do not communicate by sharing memory. Instead, share memory by communicating. Communication forces coordination.

Ivo Balbaert

#15. Writing is communicating with an unknown intimate who is always available, the way the faithful turn to God.

Ariel Levy

#16. Now, with a warrant, they can always go to the information service provider and attempt to get that information. But even then, they may not be able to because the party selling the encryption services may be a third party and may not even know who the parties are that are communicating.

Rod Beckstrom

#17. You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

Benjamin Disraeli

#18. The Spirit is as operative today in communicating the gospel to all who seek the truth as it was on the day of Pentecost anciently.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#19. After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.

Charles Nodier

#20. I like the idea of subversively communicating with people ... so that you make people see things in different ways.

Trent Reznor

#21. Not responding verbally isn't necessarily being passive. we are communicating on many levels simultaneously

Waking Life

#22. I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#23. My persona is most importantly just to communicate the material in a way that is most funny and meaningful in the moment. It's more like a character that's sculpted for whatever joke needs communicating at the moment.

Bo Burnham

#24. She's not great at communicating day-to-day, but when we finally do get into arguments, she has a laser-guided missile system that cuts right through my bullshit, and suddenly, I'm the one left floundering, searching for the right words.

David W. Wright

#25. The most precious contribution we can make here on Earth is to create the lives we want to be living, communicating in all ways, to everyone around us, that success is really possible.

Susan Collins

#26. I think that if people are having trouble communicating with one
another, the least they can do is SHUT UP.

Tom Lehrer

#27. My poetry is often criticized for a failure to communicate, but I take issue with this; my intention is to communicate and my feeling is that a poem that communicates something that's already known by the reader is not really communicating anything to him and in fact shows a lack of respect for him.

John Ashbery

#28. At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.

Sibel Edmonds

#29. Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories ... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.

Mark Zuckerberg

#30. Rather than communicating blame communicate your standards for proper future treatment.

Bryant McGill

#31. The old days of an inner circle of like-minded souls communicating with parchment and quill pens are gone. Sooner or later most things will be revealed.

Robert Harris

#32. It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.

Sufjan Stevens

#33. I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.

Martha Graham

#34. If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.

Story Musgrave

#35. When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.

Andrew Cuomo

#36. I haven't tweeted once in my life, but I'm sick of hearing about it already. What once may have been the cool way of letting a hundred people know that you're about to go mow your lawn now has the feel of a used-to-be-fresh means of communicating. So yesterday, like two-way pagers. And AOL.

John Ridley

#37. If you're not attempting to get someone to see, feel, think, or act in a particular manner, why bother communicating at all?

Leonard Koren

#38. Over-communicating is the glue that holds a high-performing team together and keeps them focused in the same direction. And, it circles back to clarity. Without good, consistent communication, you don't have clarity.

Lee Ellis

#39. It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.

Mahatma Gandhi

#40. With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

Wayne Coyne

#41. I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter how worthy the message of something, if it's dull, you're just not communicating.
-Poul_Anderson

Poul Anderson

#42. Your phone is a tool for communicating. You shouldn't be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone.

Andy Rubin

#43. I nod like I'm listening,like we're communicating, and she never knows the difference.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#44. It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.

Richard Scarry

#45. Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

Laura Schlessinger

#46. leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves. Right

Stephen R. Covey

#47. The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given.

Richard G. Scott

#48. Mathilde and Lotto held hands in the taxi going to brunch, communicating, not speaking.

Lauren Groff

#49. George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.

Mark McKinnon

#50. So that's my main role right now and really the politics also includes going out and communicating to the world why Apache is a good thing, why companies should be involved in it, and why individuals should be involved in it too.

Brian Behlendorf

#51. The minute you start the process of deciding to make a film and you're communicating that vision to anyone, you're in the process of selling. If you don't understand that, you're not in show business. You're just not.

Peter Guber

#52. the whole point of literature, I think, is that it's the best technology we have for communicating what another person's life feels like from the inside.

Garth Greenwell

#53. We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids].

Nancy Lublin

#54. If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe.

Jeff Gannon

#55. Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.

Ramana Maharshi

#56. With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

Niklas Zennstrom

#57. Communicating real, raw, harsh truth to people is always better than communicating a 'pleasant lie' . . .

Alan Roger Currie

#58. Rapping is talking and communicating, and that's always good.

Ice Cube

#59. Being a judge is sometimes like raising children: litigants get the time they need, not necessarily the time they want, and you have to earn people's respect by communicating to them that you're going to listen, follow the law and make a fair decision.

Steven Pacey

#60. I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

Charles Grodin

#61. I like communicating with cats. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

Marge Piercy

#62. Focus on identifying your target audience, communicating an authentic message that they want and need and project yourself as an "expert" within your niche.

Kim Garst

#63. There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

Mike White

#64. I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations, so I think those news organizations have a certain bias toward their own readers. Yeah, I think they are a special interest. Of course they are.

Mark McKinnon

#65. Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.

William Hague

#66. For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.

Benjamin E. Mays

#67. To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say, and at the same time I can let them know what are we working on, what is our strategic line, and where are we going.

Vicente Fox

#68. You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.

Rudy Giuliani

#69. Are you trying not to give me information? Or is cryptic your only way of communicating?

Robyn Jones

#70. You're surrounded by other people all the time. And you have to take responsibility if you're the eldest or one of the older siblings, and you're constantly communicating in a way that perhaps you aren't if you're in a smaller family.

Harry West

#71. It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that ... [it's] delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of communicating with people whom you will never meet.

Julian Barnes

#72. In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.

Bill Gates

#73. No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.

Dan Quayle

#74. It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.

Sam Harris

#75. I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.

David Hurn

#76. It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch.

Mary Roach

#77. All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us.

John Trudell

#78. Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Simon Sinek

#79. I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

Doris Lessing

#80. True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with their hearts, not heads.

Kevin Allen

#81. Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.

Steve Case

#82. God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

Robert H. Schuller

#83. To talk about communication theory without communicating its real mathematical content would be like endlessly telling a man about a wonderful composer, yet never letting him hear an example of the composer's music.

John R. Pierce

#84. I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.

Marion Ross

#85. A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.

Octavia Butler

#86. All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

Rollo May

#87. Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#88. Some people are just weak and vulnerable but not dangerous. By using our heart we can more easily choose the right words when communicating with them.

Robin Sacredfire

#89. Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.

Stephen Covey

#90. In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.

Ruth First

#91. Culturally intelligent leaders will not assume they know what will build trust with clients or staff. Instead, they'll discover what's most important for communicating and building trust.

David Livermore

#92. Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.

Marlee Matlin

#93. I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago.

Wyclef Jean

#94. This life is real too. We're communicating aren't we?

Cory Doctorow

#95. I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

Tom Lehrer

#96. We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.

Camille Pissarro

#97. Compassion is essential, but it's not a substitute for self-expression, or self-respect, or self-compassion. Emotional self-care is also essential, but gently soothing our wounds does not replace communicating about them.

Vironika Tugaleva

#98. Life is responding to you. Life is communicating with you. There are no accidents or coincidences: every single thing has a frequency, and when anything comes into your life, it means it's on the same frequency as you are.

Rhonda Byrne

#99. Communicating is a bit of a problem. Playing in New York is great but there are times when I feel a long way from home.

Chien-Ming Wang

#100. When you listen to your spouse, you are communicating non verbally that they are important to you.

Jim George