Language And Communication Quotes

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. It's about making a work that is inspired by something preexisting but changes it to have a new value and meaning that doesn't in any way take away from the original - and, in fact, might provide the original with a second life or a new audience.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.

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

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

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

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

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

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

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

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people dont have.