#si

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#chicks #fight #five #get #hire

The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#communication

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans. ↗

— Daniel J. Levitin

#connection #flexibility #music #people #communication

What we have here is a failure to communicate. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#erotica #make-me-sir #communication

Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks ↗

— Amit Abraham

#long-distance-relationships #mobile #signals-blackout #communication

You could not spend your entire span of life in thrall to the code of stuff. There was no code of stuff. Stuff was just stuff. You couldn't live by it or for it. ↗

— John Lanchester

#life #material-possessions #stuff #life

No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#kafka #silence #communication

فكر في الإنصات للآخرين باعتباره وسيلة لجمع المعلومات ، وربما تلتقط أشياء مثيرة لاهتمام : قصصًا ، أو حكايات ، أو أفكارًا ↗

— Lani Arredondo

#stories #business

It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart. ↗

— Nicholas Boothman

#persuasion #public-speaking #business

To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#business