#communication

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#after #communication #critics #form #gave

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

— George Bernard Shaw

#misunderstanding #communication

It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#disagreement #expression #expressions #humanity #humble

Play along, the wink said. I'll get you out of this. At least Artemis hoped this was what his wink communicated and not something like 'Any chance of another kiss later? ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#humor #communication

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#internet #media #communication

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#everywhere #proved #regimes #technology #telecommunications

The Tone is the Message. ↗

— Kevin T. McCarney

#connecting #honest #leadership #listening #management

How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resenting them for making you feel like your pain doesn't have any substance after all? Like when you've split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands just how pissed off and frightened you feel. The problem is, they never do. "Plenty more fish in the sea," they'll say, or "You're better off without them," or "Do you want some of these potato chips?" They never really understand, because they haven't been there, every day, every hour. They don't know the way things have been, the way that it's made you, the way it has structured your world. They'll never realise that someone who makes you feel bad may be the person you need most in the world. They don't understand the history, the background, don't know the pillars of memory that hold you up. Ultimately, they don't know you well enough, and they never can. Everyone's alone in their world, because everybody's life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down. ↗

— Michael Marshall Smith

#love #only-forward #reality #communication

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#advanced #before #communication #distributed #economic

I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself. ↗

— Elizabeth Barton

#communications #even #himself #hold #i