Communication

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

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.

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

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

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

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

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

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.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

Words are all we have.

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

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

The medium is the message.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

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

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

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

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

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