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They were two people staring at each other knowingly, communicating psychically amidst an ocean of deaf, dumb and blind meatsacks. ↗

— Travis Luedke

#psychic #telepathy #communication

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#mind #understanding #communication

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#learning #speaking #writing #communication

In order to get [Mean Streets] made I had to learn how to make a movie," says Scorsese. "I didn't learn how to make a movie in film school. What you learned in film school was to express yourself with pictures and sound. But learning to make a movie is totally different. ↗

— Peter Biskind

#filmmaking #movies

I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce. ↗

— Megan Gallagher

#am #anxious #direct #i #like

On a visit or vacation to Toba Lake, you may say 'Horas' to Batak people, when we meet, visit and shake hands. ↗

— Toba Beta

#communication #good #hello #horas #people

To say exactly what one means, even to one's own private satisfaction, is difficult. To say exactly what one means and to involve another person is harder still. Communication between you and me relies on assumptions, associations, commonalities and a kind of agreed shorthand, which no-one could precisely define but which everyone would admit exists. That is one reason why it is an effort to have a proper conversation in a foreign language. Even if I am quite fluent, even if I understand the dictionary definitions of words and phrases, I cannot rely on a shorthand with the other party, whose habit of mind is subtly different from my own. Nevertheless, all of us know of times when we have not been able to communicate in words a deep emotion and yet we know we have been understood. This can happen in the most foreign of foreign parts and it can happen in our own homes. It would seem that for most of us, most of the time, communication depends on more than words. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#words #art

There is no amount of communication or work that can overcome being with someone who does not want what you want. ↗

— Kevin Darné

#communication

Geez, what do I need to do, use semaphore? I told you I was unclaimed. ↗

— Katie MacAlister

#semaphore #unclaimed #communication

I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that other as well as one knows himself? Heaven knows. I know little enough of myself: I know nothing of others. We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbours. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#choices-and-consequences #communication