Quotes about Communication

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

Know what you are talking about.

A brand is no longer what it tells consumers it is—it is what consumers tell each other it is.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other very well.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one.

The only wealth I'm interested in is a wealth of words.

There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great scholar, if only I could retain everything I've learned from those I have known. But then would I still be me? And isn't all that only words? Words grow old, too; they change their meaning and their usage. They get sick just as we do; they die of their wounds and then they are relegated to the dust of dictionaries. And where am I in all this?

The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day."

Suddenly he stopped in front of me and asked for a cigarette. I had a package of Players in my pocket and wanted to give them to him. But he refused to take the whole package, saying quite calmly that obviously he didn't have time to smoke them all.

You walk out in the evening with a woman, you tell her that she is beautiful and you love her, and twenty centuries hear what you are saying.