I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet. ~By Omar Bongo ~
It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge. ~By James Levine ~
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. ~By Walt Disney ~
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. ~By Thom Mayne ~
Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market. ~By Janet Napolitano ~
Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada. ~By Marc Garneau ~
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. ~By Walt Disney ~
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field. ~By Stephen Covey ~
In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait. ~By Les Brown ~
The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security. ~By Warren Rudman ~
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing. ~By Alva Myrdal ~
Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain. ~By Tina Louise ~
I have a very open line of communication with both my children. ~By Gloria Estefan ~
The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels. ~By William Friedkin ~
The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family. ~By Townsend Harris ~
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. ~By Leo Rosten ~
We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services. ~By Bernard Ebbers ~
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication. ~By Rick Boucher ~
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. ~By Rebecca West ~
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. ~By Edward Sapir ~
It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero. ~By Meg Whitman ~
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. ~By John Warnock ~
To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality. ~By Cliff Shaw ~
I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace. ~By Conrad Bums ~
Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God. ~By Story Musgrave ~
The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication. ~By Hidetoshi Nakata ~
Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications. ~By Mary Douglas ~
States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time. ~By John Shimkus ~
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message. ~By Pope John Paul II ~
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? ~By Emma Thompson ~
Communication is everyone's panacea for everything. ~By Tom Peters ~
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. ~By Erich Fromm ~
I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself. ~By Elizabeth Barton ~
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. ~By Peter Drucker ~
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. ~By Faith Baldwin ~
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production. ~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. ~By John Marshall ~
Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart. ~By Frank Luntz ~
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance. ~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this. ~By Mary Martin ~
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. ~By Story Musgrave ~
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. ~By J. B. Priestley ~
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication. ~By Michel de Montaigne ~
It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling. ~By Aaron Sorkin ~
We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising. ~By Lee Scott ~
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts. ~By David Bohm ~
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. ~By Oliver Evans ~
There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear. ~By Frank Luntz ~
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. ~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. ~By Simone Weil ~
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. ~By Ralph Ellison ~
You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills. ~By Lesley Gore ~
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals. ~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time. ~By Anthony Weiner ~
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago. ~By John Boyd Orr ~
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. ~By Mary Martin ~
I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology. ~By Whitfield Diffie ~
Power in America today is control of the means of communication. ~By Theodore White ~
There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies. ~By Miroslav Vitous ~
Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard. ~By Scott McCloud ~
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. ~By Wole Soyinka ~
The art of communication is the language of leadership. ~By James Humes ~
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies. ~By Mark Lloyd ~
People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication. ~By Yoko Ono ~
We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. ~By M. H. Abrams ~
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. ~By Joseph Priestley ~
People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period. ~By Lee Scott ~
I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. ~By Michael Polanyi ~
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world. ~By Gordon Brown ~
The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication. ~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. ~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services. ~By Bernard Ebbers ~
It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication. ~By Mark Ruffalo ~
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills. ~By Alan Greenspan ~
People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day. ~By Lee Grant ~
I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process. ~By Joshua Lederberg ~
Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials. ~By Thor Heyerdahl ~
Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication. ~By Sylvia Sidney ~
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats. ~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. ~By Jessamyn West ~
I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs. ~By John Warnock ~
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. ~By Steve Buscemi ~
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. ~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways. ~By Major Owens ~
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. ~By Eugenio Montale ~
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy. ~By Bill Cosby ~
So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place. ~By Michael Chertoff ~
One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication. ~By Georges Simenon ~
Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics. ~By Jerry Costello ~
So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology. ~By Michael K. Powell ~
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols. ~By Jacques Lacan ~
I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future. ~By Matt Drudge ~
The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree. ~By Paul A. Volcker ~
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power. ~By Fernando Flores ~
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words. ~By Ruth St. Denis ~
I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation. ~By Judy Collins ~
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. ~By Emma Thompson ~
I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts. ~By Don DeLillo ~
I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects. ~By Joshua Lederberg ~
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