My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

People often cover their mouths when lying. A hand on the mouth or even a touch of the lips shows you that they are lying because this unconscious body language represents a closing off of communication.

There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

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

We are not advertising ourselves as a secure platform. It's a communication platform. It's not our job to police the world or Snapchat of jerks.

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

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

I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

Every sexy joke of long ago, every flirtation, is being recalled by some women and revised and re-evaluated as sexual harassment. Frivolous accusations reduce, if not eliminate, not only communication between men and women but any kind of playfulness and banter... Where has the laughter gone?

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

I think always having somebody that you trust and you know can help in the communication, that is very important.

It's so important in marriage to let the little things go and let the pride go. Forgiveness is so important, and communication. Don't major on the minors.

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.

I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't converse with people. Maybe it's because of my stuttering or stammering, but I'm not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

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

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

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

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

If you invest the time earlier to create structure and process around communication, planning, and goal-setting, you can prevent missteps before they occur.

There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it.

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.

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

Whether you lead a nation, an enterprise, a community, or a family, we are all in the communication business.

We're moving into an era when things are dematerialised and much more holographic. Floating above the physical world and the geographic map, there's another landscape that's constantly changing - something like a cloud - of communication, information, exchange and commerce.

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

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.

Syllables govern the world.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

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

You need to set a tone at the top that inspires trust - and encourages open and honest 2-way communication. So you hear the brutal facts, and you listen to the good news and the bad news - so that, in the spirit of continuous improvement, you can make changes.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

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.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

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.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

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

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

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

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

Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.