Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
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 ~
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
~By Leonard Bernstein ~
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 ~
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
~By Charles Sturt ~
My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.
~By Frederick W. Smith ~
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
~By Virginia Satir ~
Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.
~By Dick Morris ~
The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.
~By David Cronenberg ~
However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
~By Steven Bochco ~
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
~By Bill Cosby ~
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
~By Peter Drucker ~
Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology.
~By Jean-Marie Messier ~
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
~By John Drinkwater ~
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 ~
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 ~
We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.
~By Robert Welch ~
We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.
~By Dorothy Denning ~
The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
~By Patti Smith ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.
~By Georges Simenon ~
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
~By Bill Gates ~
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 ~
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 ~
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
~By Ansel Adams ~
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
~By Alvin Adams ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.
~By Mary Martin ~
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.
~By Tony Conrad ~
I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.
~By Elizabeth Barton ~
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
~By Leo Rosten ~
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
~By James Madison ~
Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail.
~By John M. McHugh ~
There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
~By Annie Leibovitz ~
As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.
~By Alexander Kluge ~
To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
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 ~
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.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
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 ~
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 ~
My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
~By Jack Adams ~
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
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 ~
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 ~
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.
~By Anne Spencer ~
It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.
~By Chita Rivera ~
We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
~By Vicente Fox ~
I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
~By Don DeLillo ~
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
~By Walt Disney ~
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 ~
The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
~By Mary Martin ~
When I did it with Johnny, it was almost a telepathic kind of communication.
~By Edgar Winter ~
In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
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 ~
I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
~By Bill Gates ~
People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
~By Yoko Ono ~
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 ~
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 ~
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
~By John Marshall ~
The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.
~By Kelly Miller ~
I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.
~By Judd Nelson ~
I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
~By Joichi Ito ~
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
~By James Cash Penney ~
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
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 ~
We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.
~By Juliette G. Low ~
The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.
~By Jim Clark ~
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.
~By Jared Diamond ~
Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.
~By Ernst Toller ~
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 ~
God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.
~By Julian Assange ~
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
~By Deborah Tannen ~
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 ~
I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.
~By Mike Davidson ~
People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.
~By Dick Wolf ~
There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications.
~By Douglas Feith ~
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
~By Richard Rosen ~
Communication works for those who work at it.
~By John Powell ~
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 ~
I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement.
~By David Axelrod ~
Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.
~By Victoria de los Angeles ~
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
~By Ansel Adams ~
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.
~By Estelle Morris ~
How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.
~By John Gilmore ~
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