Communications Quotes

“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean.

But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they started to build never met.

To this day the bridge extends far into the ocean from both sides, and simply ends half way, miles in the wrong direction from the meeting point.

And the two countries are still at war.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they died, I wrote a book; why not a letter? A mysterious but truthful answer is that while I can gear myself up to do a novel, letters, real-life communications, are too much for me. I used to rattle them off easily enough; why is the challenge of writing to friends and acquaintances too much for me now? Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key--as if I no longer understood the codes used by the estimable people who wanted to hear from me and would have so much to reply if only the impediments were taken away.”
― Saul Bellow

“There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called 'state security' in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court—and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki.”
― Mark Gevisser

“I'm a Dolphin. I believe that communication can solve any problem if the parties have the will and the intelligence to learn to understand each other.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“A telephone connects more than just people.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“As communicators, we are complicit in the harm caused by performative communications, microaggressions, reinforcing stereotypes in our content, and contributing to damaging our brand’s reputation…. As conscious communicators, with an awareness of others’ experiences and a commitment to centering them, we are uniquely positioned to help build a truly people-centered workplace.”
― Kim Clark, The Conscious Communicator: The Fine Art of Not Saying Stupid Sh*t

“As communicators, we are complicit in the harm caused by performative communications, microaggressions, reinforcing stereotypes in our content, and contributing to damaging our brand’s reputation…. As conscious communicators, with an awareness of others’ experiences and a commitment to centering them, we are uniquely positioned to help build a truly people-centered workplace.”
― Janet M Stovall, The Conscious Communicator: The Fine Art of Not Saying Stupid Sh*t

“Linguistics," Alice said in her one-word style... "interesting," Alice said, still looking at her book, "how many different ways there are of communicating." Nancy nodded..."For example, one can start a seemingly irrelevant topic," Alice said, fingering the pages of her book, "and still communicate a specific message from what one is discussing." Still silent, Nancy listened as Alice added, "The purpose of which is to keep the speaker safe.”
― Carolyn Keene, Sisters in Crime

“Marketing communications is not a nice to have. It is a must have.”
― Dominic Walters, Harnessing the Power At Your Fingertips: A Leader's Guide to B2B Marketing Communication

“Storytellers have passion and are at the forefront of creating original content. They embrace new and emerging trends and are contributors to creating successful multimedia narratives.”
― Germany Kent

“Some kinds of communication, on some kinds of issues, brought to the attention of some kinds of people, under some kinds of conditions, have some kinds of effects”
― Bernard Berelson

“The communications, water, sewer and electrical utility systems stopped working after hurricane Ian made landfall.”
― Steven Magee

“After the murder of George Floyd, more than 950 brands began posting black squares via social media. Intended to be symbols of online activism, most of these posts came with empty statements of solidarity and commitments where few followed through.”
― Kim Clark, The Conscious Communicator: The Fine Art of Not Saying Stupid Sh*t

“Whether we like it or not, as a law enforcement officer myself, I do believe that law enforcement agencies around the world and the Academies itself, takes away a young man’s or woman’s will. It tends to barricade he or she with rules and regulations. Depriving him or her of reason. It makes them less human. They no longer know reality or communication with the real world we live in.”
― Alex Hartley Jr.

“Potent solar storms happen every century and we are overdue for one. All communications, electrical and electronic systems are expected to be destroyed at that time. Modern society will end for several years until it can recover from the extensive global damage.”
― Steven Magee

“The internet is my second brain.”
― Steven Magee

“Traditional public relations, internal communications, and executive communications exist to reinforce the status quo…. [T]hat means force-fitting messaging, restricting what people know to control what we want them to feel, and limiting what they do. Becoming conscious communicators by applying a DEI lens to our work means expanding the topics, options, and actions our audience can experience — making room.”
― Kim Clark, The Conscious Communicator: The Fine Art of Not Saying Stupid Sh*t

“Traditional public relations, internal communications, and executive communications exist to reinforce the status quo…. [T]hat means force-fitting messaging, restricting what people know to control what we want them to feel, and limiting what they do. Becoming conscious communicators by applying a DEI lens to our work means expanding the topics, options, and actions our audience can experience — making room.”
― Janet M Stovall, The Conscious Communicator: The Fine Art of Not Saying Stupid Sh*t

“On October 24, H.E. President Maharaja Hari Singh ji appealed to India for military aid to flush out the raiders. India obliged but not before the Instrument of Accession was signed on October 26. It limited India’s powers over the Jammu, Kashmir & Ladakh to matters of defence, communications, and foreign affairs.”
― Maharaja Hari Singh-Accession

“A society cannot survive when men and women are pitted against each other.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future

“Most people have their own unique way of looking at life, and the way they look at life keeps on 'changing.' It cannot be like 'a fixed concept' that they desperately want to hold on to. Rather, it is flowing and changing like a fluid like water and not solid like a stone. A stone is a solid, inanimate object, but the way people look at everything and the way they think in their minds is fluid, like a liquid that takes the shape of the container that it finds itself in. 
 
This 'changing' happens according to the circumstances that they encounter in their everyday lives, the situations that they find themselves in, and the people that they interact with on a day-to-day basis.If they meet and interact with the same people and find themselves in similar situations, then their philosophy solidifies into a solid, inanimate object.
 
On the other hand, if they meet new people and find themselves in new situations, then their thoughts change and the way they look at life too changes. If you can understand the psychology of a person, then you can understand them better. I feel grateful to the people I have met in life who have changed my way of looking at life. 
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― Avijeet Das

“Verse was humanity's first memory and broadcast technology—a technology originally transmitted only by the human body.”
― Dana Gioia, Poetry as Enchantment

“The tubes are tiny. They are hollow. They weigh nothing. All they carry is light. I can’t presume to explain this. It is one of the things that still continues to fill me with wonder.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“All that traffic on the floor of the unknown.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“Communicate. Don’t just talk.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“Effective communication involves more than just words.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide

“This is the paradox: it is against the law to defraud someone but legal, and highly lucrative, to defraud everyone.”
― Wes Henricksen, In Fraud We Trust: How Leaders in Politics, Business, and Media Profit from Lies―and How to Stop Them

“Those who speak to the public can spread self-serving falsehoods, regardless of the harm caused, as long as they spread them to enough people.”
― Wes Henricksen, In Fraud We Trust: How Leaders in Politics, Business, and Media Profit from Lies―and How to Stop Them

“Time and again we see the same trend: the more victims one defrauds, the more likely the liar will avoid legal repercussions.”
― Wes Henricksen, In Fraud We Trust: How Leaders in Politics, Business, and Media Profit from Lies―and How to Stop Them