“The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able to see not only the absence of complexity, the absence of duality, but the stoneness of stone and the waterness of water. One sees things precisely as they are, not merely in the physical sense, but with awareness of their spiritual significance.” WorldRealityAbleSpiritualWaterAwarenessCommunicationStonesDirectDepthInsightAbsenceComplexitySignificanceDualityPhenomenalDirect Communication Author:Chogyam Trungpa
“I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better appreciation for the fact that if any community is going to prosper, if any community is going to be seen at its best, that the women in that community have to be viewed as equally as important as the men. And [women] have to be able to live outside of boundaries that are placed on them because of their gender. As well as their race or their religion.” IfsThinkingMenWellsImportantFactsTodayAbleUnderstandingCommunityRaceSupportHe ManCommunicationMen And WomenAppreciationGenderBoundaries Author:Anita Hill
“I really love newspapers. They are disposable. They are recyclable. They fall apart so easily. They are not like iPads or Kindles that can't be disposed of and end up on some third-world shore. And I love the heritage of them, the whole history of mass communication. Newspapers changed the world from being a really class based, feudal system to people being able to cheaply get information that informed them.” PeopleWorldEndsWholeAbleFallClassInformationChangedCommunicationMassThirdsNewspapersShoreHeritageFalling ApartThird WorldKindlesIpadsDisposableMass CommunicationFeudal System Author:Stanley Donwood
“One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual can use encryption, and that it's accessible and in many cases free.” ThinkingUseAbleIndividualCasesCommunicationSecureEncryption Author:Laura Poitras
“Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest or successful communication. Missed connections occur among hearing people all the time, splitting open countless minor chasms and yawning gulches, fissures that no vaccine or technilogical advance will ever be able to mend or prevent. That task will always fail to us.” PeopleLittlesDoeAbleCommonSuccessfulFailingCommunicationTasksConnectionsHearingTongueMinorsEarnestVaccinesChasmsSplittingYawningMissed ConnectionsSuccessful Communication Author:Leah Hager Cohen
“We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more difficult than ever. When in fact we need communication more urgently than ever, because the enemies that threaten us are universal: drugs, illiteracy and crime. We have to fight against them together.” WorldWayNeedsDifferentFactsAbleTogetherFightingDifficultEnemyCrimeCommunicationDrugUniversalCommunicateDifferent WaysIlliteracy Author:Tom Cruise
“I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentUseFeelingsAbleArtistNiceCommunicationDifferent WaysNuts Author:Andy Serkis
“We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed by each part.” NeedsAbleValuesCommunicationEmbraceCompassionateNonviolent Communication Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“The local communities, through their leaders, were able to build a communications network that allowed my work here to reflect the needs and interests of the people within the 9th Congressional District. Its been an honor to do that and we did so successfully.” PeopleNeedsAbleInterestCommunityLeaderCommunicationHonorLocalsLocal Community Author:Nick Lampson
“Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.” ArtSeemsAbleChristianReligiousPowerfulFieldsCommunicationSpreadJournalismAnti Christian Book:A Nation Without a Conscience Source: A Nation Without a Conscience
“The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.” WantStatesAbleCommunicationAuthorityCommunicateSurveillanceSurveillance State Author:Barry Eisler
“Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man is able to build organizations of a size and complexity far beyond those of the lower animals.” MenAbleLanguageImaginationAbilityAnimalCommunicationCapacityOrganizationSizeAbstractComplexityLives Of Others Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key.” PeopleWantAbleAbilityPlansCommunicationKeysInternetStrikesTerroristFree Speech Author:William J. Clinton
“If each one of us can give full attention to what is actually ‘blocking’ communication while he is also attending properly to the content of what is communicated, then we may be able to create something new between us, something of very great significance for bringing to an end the at present insoluble problems of the individual and of society.” IfsGivingMayEndsProblemAbleIndividualAttentionCommunicationBlockSignificanceSomething NewAttending Book:On Dialogue Source: On Dialogue
“A hallmark of high performance leaders is the ability to influence others through all levels and types of communication, from simple interactions to difficult conversations and more complex conflicts, in order to achieve greater team and organizational alignment. High performing leaders are able to unite diverse team members by building common goals and even shared emotions by engaging in powerful and effective dialogue.” AbleOrderDifficultGoalSimpleAbilityLevelsPowerfulCommonEmotionLeaderGreaterTeamInfluenceAchieveBuildingCommunicationTypeConversationConflictMembersPerformancesComplexesDialoguePerformingInteractionDiverseEngagingAlignmentHallmarkOrganizationalTeam MemberCommon GoalDifficult ConversationsDiverse Teams Author:George Kohlrieser
“There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been done successfully - that one is grateful to have been spun. In the theater, it is called the willing suspension of disbelief. That's what allows the play to make an impact on the audience: they have to be able to make believe that what's happening on the stage is really happening. Maybe to a degree it is a requirement for all political participation, all effective political communication, too.” KnowsShouldBelieveHas BeensDonePlayAblePoliticalNamesProcessAudienceStageWillingCommunicationDegreesHappeningsTheaterGratefulImpactRequirementsParticipationDisbeliefMake BelieveSpunSuspensionSuspension Of DisbeliefPolitical Participation Author:Peggy Noonan
“Every form of communication is for the purpose of feeling, experiencing, sharing. Everyone has their own intense journey through life, and you don't want to do it all alone. It's really meaningful to be able to share with people. Whether it's your political beliefs, or what goes on for you emotionally, or keeping track of history.” PeopleWantFeelingsAbleFormPoliticalPurposeBeliefJourneyShareCommunicationGoes OnTrackMeaningfulIntenseReally MeanAll AlonePolitical BeliefsJourney Through LifeReally Meaningful Author:Mirah
“Before Gutenberg, there was this really very strong oral storytelling culture where being able to relay stories from person to person was sufficient. And then, with the introduction of printing and mass communication, suddenly somebody had a lot of authority invested in the idea of a single canonical expression of a document or a piece of communication.” PersonsIdeasStoriesAbleCultureStrongPiecesExpressionCommunicationAuthorityMassStorytellingSufficientVery StrongDocumentsIntroductionPrintingRelaysMass CommunicationGutenberg Author:Khoi Vinh
“My characteristics [of Ideal Black Man.] aren't as specific. I'm more general. I'm more like, I have to be able to talk to him. You know, we have to have good communications. He has to be interested in the world. You know what I mean. Like interested in learning and adventurous and curious, 'cause that's what I am. He has to be passionate about something. And it would be nice if he had a job. It's not like he has to have an MBA.” IfsKnowsMenWorldMeanWould BeAbleJobsCausesBlackNiceCommunicationIdealsPassionateCuriousCharacteristicsBeing NiceAdventurousGood CommunicationMba Author:Sanaa Lathan
“The thing of being able to share somebody's reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know. Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody's reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically. The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go? If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which... you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.” IfsKnowsWayMindMeanMatterWholeRealityAbleUniverseWalksStepsShareCommunicationTypeModelsLegsDiscussionPhenomenonInteractionImmenseImplicationsCyberspace Author:Jerry Garcia
“There is this whole level of communication that I think our generation and younger is used to that does have this weird effect on people. It creates a familiarity that is possibly not always justified. I think that's interesting and I think it's nice to be able to incorporate it into films, because most of us can relate to that now.” PeopleThinkingDoeWholeAbleFilmUsedInterestingLevelsNiceGenerationsEffectsCommunicationRelateJustifiedFamiliarityOur Generation Author:Duncan Jones
“More pro-active Vatican communications might be able to do something about all this, but when the Holy See is constantly in the mode of, "No, what the pope really meant was . . . ," the game has already been largely forfeited.” MightAbleGamesCommunicationHolyActivePopeReally Mean Author:George Weigel
“The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.” MenMindAbleStrongStrengthCommunicationPerceptionSensesBeing StrongStrong Man Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“I share a warning. Satan is extremely good at blocking spiritual communication by inducing individuals, through temptation, to violate the laws upon which spiritual communication is founded. With some, he is able to convince them that they are not able to receive such guidance from the Lord.” AbleSpiritualLawIndividualLordShareCommunicationBlockTemptationGuidanceSatanConvinceWarning Author:Richard G. Scott
“As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36)” WayHumansMeanBookAbleEarthLanguageSoundHuman BeingsCommunicationMouthsPrimariesExpressiveMeans Of Communication Author:Jon Stewart
“Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.” KnowsWellsAbleKnow HowCommunicationIntelligentAssumingMotivated Author:Robert K. Greenleaf
“Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't even matter.” IfsIdeasMatterMotivationalAbleLeadershipLeaderKnowledgeShareCommunicationDevelopmentSkillsEssentialsMessagesEnthusiasmDevelopingExcellentCommunication SkillsEffectivenessUrgencyTransmitEffective LeadershipGreat LeadershipSense Of UrgencySharing KnowledgeSkills DevelopmentBusiness WritingClear Communication Author:Gil Amelio
“It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of the atmosphere and left to broadcast scientific information back to the Earth. A little later, manned rockets will be able to make similar flights with sufficient excess power to break the orbit and return to Earth. (1945) [Predicting communications satellites.]” YearsLittlesAbleEarthScienceLeftBreakInformationCommunicationReturnLimitsRadioFlightAtmosphereSufficientControlledExcessRocketsOrbitSatellitesPredicting Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in English.” NeedsAblePastCommunicationPersonalitySkillsCommunicateCommunication SkillsSuitablePrerequisitesPast ExperiencesGood Communication Author:Paul Clitheroe
“I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.” ThinkingWayRealityAbleFacesChallengesCommunicationThreatTerrorism Author:Hillary Clinton
“The investment in our mining industry has been very positive for Australia but we need to be doing more if we want, as I do, more revenue for our defence - which I think is under-resourced - our police, our elderly, our hospitals, roads, infrastructure and communication, to be able to repay our debts and enable sustainable job opportunities for existing and future generations.” IfsThinkingWantNeedsHas BeensAbleJobsOpportunityGenerationsCommunicationIndustryPoliceInvestmentDebtAustraliaHospitalsRevenueInfrastructureFuture GenerationElderlyDefenceMiningVery PositiveJob Opportunities Author:Gina Rinehart
“The Holy Ghost serves . . . as a revelator, revealing great, new, and important truths. God, with his infinite knowledge and power has developed a system of communication far superior to anything mortals have yet developed or even conceived. Through the Holy Spirit, he is able to communicate with his children instantly, individually, and personally.” ChildrenImportantAbleSpiritCommunicationHolyInfiniteCommunicateGhostSuperiorsMortalsHoly SpiritRevealingHoly GhostKnowledge And PowerInfinite Knowledge Author:Daniel H. Ludlow
“We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.” GovernmentAbleOrderRecordsSecurityCommunicationGainsAbsolutesCourtAccessAgencyAppropriatePrivacyGovernment AgenciesElectronic Communication Author:Dorothy E. Denning
“We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged.” IdeasAbleActionBeliefViewsResponsibilitySeriousCommunicationExerciseAssumingSpreadConnectedEchoesSupporterChamberOur WordsWords And ActionsDeliriousAnger And Fear Author:William J. Clinton
“The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.” LifeHumansPlayAbleIndividualConsciousnessIdentityExpressionCommunicationWork Love Book:Time and the Art of Living Source: Time and the Art of Living