Daily Inspiration

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Writing is the supreme solace.

It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

Language is a virus from outer space.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Language cares.

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

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

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

The temple of art is built in words.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.