“We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.” TryingSeemsTalkingOur LivesInformationCommunicationMessagesFunctionOur TimeUrgentExchangingSending A Message Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.” MenShouldHumansAnimalTalkingConversationFunctionFewerHuman AnimalBusiness Man Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son
“My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.” PeopleWantTalkingFunctionArguingUncomfortable Author:Ewan MacColl
“Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.” PeopleReasonHandsActorsFoundDifficultTalkingPhotographyFunctionCamerasWitnessShySubstitutes Author:Martine Franck
“The fifty trillion cells in your body are constantly talking to each other as they keep your heart beating, digest your food, eliminate toxins, protect you from infection and disease, and carry out the countless other functions that keep you alive. While these processes may seem out of your conscious control, hundreds of studies have shown that nothing holds more power over the body than the mind.” MindHeartMayBodySeemsProcessTalkingStudyAliveProtectDiseaseConsciousFunctionYour BodyCellsFiftyInfectionProtect YouHeart BeatToxinsHeart Beating Author:Deepak Chopra
“The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.” TogetherScienceNextTalkingComputerMajorsFunctionSubstanceExplosionsGeneticsChange ManagementFuture ShockSemiconductors Author:Alvin Toffler
“Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.” PeopleIfsLanguageTalkingClearCommunicationTerribleOppositesLet MeFunctionErrorsGrammarTransparentCorrectingFacilitateClear Communication Author:John Green