Daily Inspiration

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

The medium is the message.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

Language is memory and metaphor.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

Writing is a communication.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

Writing only leads to more writing.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Syllables govern the world.

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

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.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

The press is the enemy.

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

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

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

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.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Languages are true analytical methods.