Social Communication Quotes

#1. The first law of social communication is whenever you meet anyone, exalt him or her.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#2. The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

#3. Seeing other people is incredibly engaging, and that's one of the drivers that made us partner with Facebook - social communication. Not social newsfeeds, but actual face-to-face, seeing multiple avatars in a play experience, that's going to be a very big part of the future in VR.

Brendan Iribe

#4. The hallmark of successful small talk is when people take turns to speak and to listen. Turn-taking is a social communication skill because it involves taking turns to speak and to listen.

Betty Bohm

#5. To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

Rowan Williams

#6. Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

John Dewey

#7. Understand your audience and you will understand the impact of your message on each follower in your social media networks.

Matt Gentile

#8. Contradictions, in any communication, are the first stepping stones of mistrust

Paul Babicki

#9. Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.

Gerald Jonas

#10. Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

Anne Roe

#11. For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.

Peter Drucker

#12. A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial of boys with autism found that two to three servings of cruciferous vegetables a day improves social interaction, abnormal behaviour and verbal communication - within a matter of weeks.

Michael Greger

#13. Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality ... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection ... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

Jean Tinguely

#14. Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.

Robert Ardrey

#15. Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people.

Elise Andrew

#16. Caught in your youniverse again? Try reaching out to the one besides you!

Stefan Emunds

#17. Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.

Evan Williams

#18. The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift.

Bill Gates

#19. Social media provides us the opportunity to think before we 'speak', giving us a better shot at reasoned dialog. So it's not a huge surprise to me that not only can real communication happen, but real relationships can blossom.

Paul Biedermann

#20. Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying he'd uttered during the day, taking simple-hearted pleasure in some of his best hits.

Harold Holzer

#21. Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue, there are no labels, only human beings.

Oli Anderson

#22. Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight.

Mario Bunge

#23. Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

Ryan Holmes

#24. The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it." For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is a godsend.

Andrew Solomon

#25. To utilize social media tools effectively and properly, you must absolutely generate spontaneous communications in direct response to what others are saying or to what is happening in that moment. Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.

Aliza Sherman

#26. When we get at least six hours of daily social time, it increases our wellbeing and minimizes stress and worry. The six hours includes time at work, at home, on the telephone, talking to friends, sending e-mail, and other communication.

Tom Rath

#27. To make sense of social epidemics, we must first understand that human communication has its own set of very unusual and counterintuitive rules.

Malcolm Gladwell

#28. Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people

Cesar Hidalgo

#29. I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.

Sara Sheridan

#30. Netiquette: The social code of network communication. Internet code of conduct based on the Golden Rule. Ethical philosophy of common rules.

David Chiles

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

Leonard Mlodinow

#32. The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#33. Meaning is made in conversation, reality is created in communication, and knowledge is generated through social interaction ... Language is the vehicle through which we create our understanding of the world.

Diana Whitney

#34. Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding.

Stephen Colbert

#35. Unless we as social change agents come from a certain kind of spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#36. On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk.

Sara Sheridan

#37. The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

Sara Sheridan

#38. My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

Tony Goldwyn

#39. Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

Rockwell Kent

#40. There is a perception that because individuals with autism have challenges in the area of communication and social skills, they are not interested in having friends. This is not so. Adults with autism may be socially isolated, but it is not always indicative of a preference for solitude.

Chantal Sicile-Kira

#41. It is the dream of every white person to be able to resolve all conflicts by complaining to unrelated parties. Because of this, white people are able to endure years of frustration and anger without saying a word in the hopes that everything will just work itself out without having to make a scene.

Christian Lander

#42. The Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things ... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

Karl Marx

#43. As a communication medium, social media is a critical tool for terror groups to exploit.

James Comey

#44. The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

Sara Sheridan

#45. Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.

Joe Cawley

#46. Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

Robert D. Putnam

#47. One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

Leonard Mlodinow

#48. When I talk about "cyborg literacy," I mean a set of skills and social practices that optimize the ability to use physical and cognitive technologies to augment, amplify, or extend human thinking and communication capabilities.

Howard Rheingold

#49. Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

Steve Allen

#50. It is really important for us that people understand what the strategy is and that the real approach is to make everything social, not to build a vertical approach.

Mark Zuckerberg

#51. Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.

Robert A. Heinlein

#52. Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.

Glenn Greenwald

#53. But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Wole Soyinka

#54. Technology offers great communication tools. Social media helps make connections. And, heart to heart conversations take place face to face and not over email, Whatsup, Facebook or Twitter. Don't be deceived.

Ana Ortega

#55. What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

Aaron Koblin

#56. Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.

Susan Wojcicki

#57. Rhetoric is communication that attempts to coordinate social action...Its goal is to influence human choices on specific matters that require immediate attention

Gerard Hauser

#58. Stuff like photos and events and groups - we've built pretty basic versions of those apps to start but they ended up being so much more used because of their social integrations.

Mark Zuckerberg

#59. Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.

Richard Pascale

#60. Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

Daniel Everett

#61. That's the vast majority of this social media, all these reviews, all these comments. Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication.

Dave Eggers

#62. I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too.

Sara Sheridan

#63. Information and communication technologies have changed the way of life completely. Nowadays, many people reach for their smart phones and/or turn their computers on as soon as they wake up. They look at the news on social networks and check e-mails, before they get dressed or have breakfast.

Eraldo Banovac

#64. If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth.

Neel Burton

#65. The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.

Sara Sheridan

#66. All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

Mario Bunge

#67. Bedford definitely stands out as a community that's designed to appease to a broader range of budgets and lifestyles. The opportunity for a diverse neighborhood that encourages community activity and social interaction is what we feel makes Bedford a model community in this industry.

John Myers

#68. A medium of communication is not merely a passive conduit for the transmission of information but rather an active force in creating new social patterns and new perceptual realities.

Leonard Shlain

#69. Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing.

Ryan Holmes

#70. These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#71. Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

Malcolm Arnold

#72. Because feelings, emotional and physical, are so foregrounded in sexual encounters, the orgy is soon the most social of human interchanges, where awareness and communication, whether verbal or no, hold all together or sunder it.

Samuel R. Delany

#73. Dialogue isn't a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room; it is a collaboration to find the truth.

Oli Anderson

#74. Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth.

Anthony Carmona

#75. 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

#76. [T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

Clay Shirky

#77. I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.

Sara Sheridan

#78. But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Thom Mayne

#79. The value is not in the noise one makes on socialmedia but the voice - the message being heard

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#80. Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand the language of feelings, and that's why we form deep and enduring social bonds with many other beings. Emotions are the glue that binds.

Marc Bekoff

#81. Some say Twitter is overrated.
Some love it, others hate it.
I guess it depends on what you've got,
If you have guts to write a funny plot!

Ana Claudia Antunes

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

Marshall B. Rosenberg