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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.

— Oliver Evans

The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

— Yo-Yo Ma

I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.

— Novak Djokovic

Throughout my scientific career, my wife has been my most constant collaborator. Her experimental skill made major contributions to the work; she has eased for me beyond measure the difficulties of communication that accompany deafness; her encouragement and fortitude have been my strongest supports.

— John Cornforth

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.

— Story Musgrave

I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that stimulate communication and the dark recesses of my musician's brain.

— Joshua Roman

There are many ingredients that go into making a great relationship, but the one that is essential to providing nourishment for both partners is communication.

— Joshua Rosenthal

You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

— Erik Qualman

I am a straight, non-alcoholic, non-partying guy who speaks straight. I have no knowledge of literature. This is my language of communication, and what I see, what I observe, I reflect.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

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.

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

— Christian Lous Lange

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

— Jane Goodall

Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

— Umberto Eco

Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.

— Vint Cerf

I think for any relationship to be successful, there needs to be loving communication, appreciation, and understanding.

— Miranda Kerr

My daughter emails me. When your daughter starts to email you instead of talk to you... It's horrible. You cannot forget human communication.

— Martha Stewart

To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.

— L. Lionel Kendrick

The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.

— Daryl Hall

We use the block chain to share value, just like Internet protocol lets us share communication. Our goal is to build a global, international bank that is instant, global, and free. Sending payments should be as easy as sending an email.

— Jeremy Allaire

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

— Bo Bennett

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

— Maya Angelou

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

— Denis Villeneuve

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

— Christian Lous Lange

The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond.

— Sheila E.

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.

— David Cronenberg

My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.

— Guy Fieri

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.

— Thom Mayne

Breaking Borders' is about, more than anything, communication and conversation. The best lesson I've learned from doing this show is that when there is a breakdown in communication, conflict starts.

— Mariana van Zeller

Clarity of communication is important.

— Lisa Su

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

— Mark Zuckerberg

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

— Cherrie Moraga

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

— David Bohm

Digital communication is completely different from in-person, face-to-face conversations. One will give you surface insights, and the other really gives you depth.

— Joe Gebbia

Language is just a communication tool; it is the content that decides the fate of a film.

— Ram Gopal Varma

Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.

— Christie Hefner

You can't compete globally unless you have appropriate communication skills.

— James Wolfensohn

I've been trying to write since 1998 after dropping out of Visual Communication from Loyola. My parents have been supportive.

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

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.

— Dick Wolf

Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

— Mireille Guiliano

Throughout my scientific career, my wife has been my most constant collaborator. Her experimental skill made major contributions to the work; she has eased for me beyond measure the difficulties of communication that accompany deafness; her encouragement and fortitude have been my strongest supports.

— John Cornforth

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

— John Berger

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.

— Oliver Evans

Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.

— Christopher Voss

We're really building, at the highest level, the future of entertainment. And we're involved in the convergence of social communication and storytelling and we're doing it in immersive, 3D, social environment.

— David Baszucki

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

— Billy Corgan

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

— Steven Bochco

People know what authentic communication feels like, so having someone else handle your social media/commenting doesn't feel honest to me.

— Amanda de Cadenet

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.

— Wole Soyinka

Unfortunately, changing forms of Internet communication are quickly outpacing laws and technology designed to allow for the lawful intercept of communication content.

— James Comey

We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng
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