Without Communication Quotes

#1. No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. 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

#3. These doctors, who had long experience with people in pain in addition to their traditional training and schooling, had discovered that nothing happens without communication, treatment based on evidence of outcome, and what used to be called a good bedside manner.

Marni Jackson

#4. Two different things: A crowd is a tribe without a leader. A crowd is a tribe without communication. Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe.

Seth Godin

#5. Good friends are those who care without hesitation, who remember without limitation and who love even without communication

Philippos Syrigos

#6. Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

W. H. Auden

#7. A world without radio is a deaf world.A world without television is a blind world. A a world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.

Germaine Greer

#9. The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

Barry Eisler

#10. A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning cascade of the violence and misery of the worldwide human race. There comes a time when we need to find some peaceful spiritual renewal.

James E. Faust

#12. The problem with so much religious communication is that it aims at changing our minds. The result is that we can hear the message of the preacher without necessarily heeding the message; we can listen to the "truth" and agree with it, yet not change in response to it.

Peter Rollins

#13. Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.

Cherie Carter-Scott

#14. In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.

Patrick White

#15. When it occurs without having to voice it - vibin' on the same page, flowin' on the same wave, soakin' up the same light rays.

T.F. Hodge

#16. 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

#17. For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

Karl Jaspers

#19. 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

#20. It is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.

Mao Zedong

#21. 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

#22. We emphasize straightforwardness. You should be true to your feelings, and to your mind, expressing yourself without any reservations. This helps the listener to understand more easily.

Shunryu Suzuki

#23. When you love someone, you can just live without it. You desire to connect and communicate.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English tongue, as the medium of all modern communication, is so great that I can witness without a sigh the gradual decline of the Irish language.

Daniel O'Connell

#25. Authentic love is soft, smooth, easy, it's laughter to the soul, it's communication, it's respect, it's an unconditional love without envy or malice.

Colishia S. Benjamin

#26. Communication without a specific focus is just noise. It achieves little beyond taking time and energy.

David Amerland

#27. An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#28. In a relationship that is successful, communication has to be totally open and honest, without judgement or anger. and before you end a relationship that is very important to you, you have to be able to say to yourself that you seeked every avenue to make it work.

Anonymous

#29. We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

#30. A communication highway without content is inconceivable.

Hubert Burda

#31. Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

Rod Steiger

#32. One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is.

Sunday Adelaja

#33. Because nothing between human beings is uncomplicated and there's no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them.

Joyce Carol Oates

#34. When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding

Kirsten Siggins

#35. Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian.

Shirin Neshat

#36. The telephone, it struck me at that moment, is the wrong means of communication for people without ears.

Timur Vermes

#37. True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another ... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

Shunryu Suzuki

#38. (If this goes on, all communication everywhere will be through text messages or computers, and direct speech between two people, without a machine, will be outlawed.)

Ray Bradbury

#39. Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#40. I realized," he said, "that they were building a system whose goal was the elimination of all privacy, globally. To make it so that no one could communicate electronically without the NSA being able to collect, store, and analyze the communication.

Glenn Greenwald

#41. I'm a huge fan of online communities. I think that asynchronous internet-based communication forums such as Reddit and other discussion forums are one of the best things that could possibly have happened to collaborative invention. The Rift certainly would not exist without forums.

Palmer Luckey

#42. If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they're not going to like you. They don't want to think. They want to be right, unrivaled or entertained.

Donna Lynn Hope

#43. We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#44. We were supposed to be having a serious conversation about where we were headed - or indeed why we were headed nowhere - but it was proving impossible. Banter was the only register we seemed capable of and without it we'd lost all means of communication.

Catherine Sanderson

#45. Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Eugenio Montale

#46. Through my choices and actions, I have learned the most effective way of speaking to God is without saying a word.

Steve Maraboli

#47. America Singer, you get back here." He ran in front of me, wrapping an arm around my waist as we stood, chest to chest. "Tell me," he whispered. I pinched my lips together. "Fine, then I shall have to rely on other means of communication." Without any warning, he kissed me.

Kiera Cass

#48. 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

#49. Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

Charles Kennedy

#50. No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

Michel De Montaigne

#51. There was that constant communication which strong family affection would dictate; and though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands.

Jane Austen

#52. It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

Oliver Evans

#53. 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

#54. Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

Kenneth L. Pike

#55. Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

Lisa Kleypas

#56. When a man says "I know what I mean, but I can't express it," he generally does not know what he means - for there can be no knowledge without words; there can only be feelings.

Sydney J. Harris

#57. Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.

Marianne Williamson

#58. I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

George Edward Woodberry

#59. I feel I should not be ... so at the mercy of people's regard. And yet - it is the artist's desire for communication too; without the answering voice you get so numb; you lose faith in your powers to communicate.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#60. No relationship can survive without trust, honesty, and communication, no matter how close you are.

J. Sterling

#61. Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

John Warnock

#62. I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

John Banham

#63. Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other's service.

Lucy Liu

#64. NVC shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, insults, or putdowns, and without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#65. People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they're talking to one another across a distance, each from an observation post standing in a different place in time.

Milan Kundera

#66. Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

Eric S. Raymond

#67. Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a jazz band without instruments: Music just isn't going to happen.

John Kao

#68. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires ...

Elizabeth Hardwick

#69. Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.

Clifford Stoll

#70. You can't be focussed without really great communication

Sam Altman

#71. That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

Morrissey

#72. Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#73. They walked as old friends walk, without often speaking, sharing the kind of silence that is not so much silence as a kind of still communication.

Susan Cooper

#74. Why I said cofounders that aren't friends really struggle, is that you can't be focused without good communication.

Sam Altman

#75. To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

Yves Klein

#76. It is very possible to acknowledge another person's concerns without entering into their vibration.

Alaric Hutchinson

#77. Without form, communication stops ... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and - rightly - no one else is interested in.

Gerhard Richter

#78. Real communication is impossible without listening.

Ralph C. Smedley

#79. The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the "conventions" of the symbolic system.

Talcott Parsons

#80. With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

Francis Chan

#81. Then it occured to me that the elicate shades of feeling, of reaction, are the result of communication, and without such communication they tend to disappear. A man with nothing to say has no words.

John Steinbeck

#82. Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior.

Lord Chesterfield

#83. People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

Billy Childish

#84. All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

Lionel Hampton

#85. That was messages without meaning: telepathy without brains.

Terry Pratchett

#86. Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Laura Esquivel

#87. Expression and communication are essential; without these, civilization ends.

Haruki Murakami

#88. Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

Alan Kay

#89. The act of collaboration must start with dialogue. You cannot build relationships without having an understanding of your potential partners, and you cannot achieve that understanding without a special form of communication that goes beyond ordinary conversation.

Daniel Yankelovich

#90. What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

Erykah Badu

#91. I think there's a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that's very challenging.

Jim Rash

#92. Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

Alfred M. Gray

#93. There is no growth without risk. There is always something to be gained from any experience. It is up to us to interpret our truth of self.

Truth Devour

#94. To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.

Phyllis Theroux

#95. Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

John P. Kotter

#96. Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.

Earl Sweatshirt

#97. The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you. Let your communication with him be controlled by your committment.

Israelmore Ayivor

#98. The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#99. Communication is the life line of any relationship. Without it, the relationship will starve itself to death.

Elizabeth Bourgeret

#100. 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