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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

— Louis Nizer

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

— Gregory Bateson

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

One must be frank to be relevant.

— Corazon Aquino

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

— Harold Pinter

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

— William T. Wiley

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

— Joseph Brodsky

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

— Omar Bongo

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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.

— Virginia Satir

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

— Stephen Covey

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.

— Iyanla Vanzant

We're making this analogy that AI is the new electricity. Electricity transformed industries: agriculture, transportation, communication, manufacturing.

— Andrew Ng

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

— James Humes

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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.

— Simone Weil

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

— Gerald Chertavian

The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course, not all fictions are shared by all humans, but at least one has become universal in our world, and this is money.

— Yuval Noah Harari

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

— Benjamin E. Mays

As long as there is communication, everything can be solved.

— Robert Trujillo

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

— Paul Watzlawick

Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.

— Rick Pitino

I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.

— Nicolas Cage

It's refreshing to just see someone that you can have honest communication with.

— Danny Ainge

Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite.

— Tony Evans

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.

— David Gilmour

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

— Ben Horowitz

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.

— Alan Greenspan

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

— Marshall McLuhan

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.

— Jessamyn West

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

— Don DeLillo

I'm a defender first and foremost - blocks, headers, vital tackles, or even just the communication side of it, which is massive but doesn't really get recognised.

— John Stones

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

— Lou Rawls

Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication.

— Dinesh Paliwal

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.

— Bill Gates

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.

— Walt Disney

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

In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.

— Palmer Luckey

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

— Anne Spencer

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

— Conor Oberst

If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

— Leonard Mlodinow

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.

— Benjamin F. Wade

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

— Benjamin Banneker

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

— Abraham Maslow

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

— Lee Krasner

Sometimes you can say it is boring being in goal, but what is important is I am in communication with the defence.

— Manuel Neuer

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

— Yoko Ono

Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.

— Don Miguel Ruiz

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

— Malcolm Arnold
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