“There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.” CertainSocialGraceGeniusMerePatternsCommunicateMortalsInabilityEccentricityMere MortalsSocial Graces Author:John Noble
“I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.” LittlesTwoDifferentMightMovingScienceSocialFeltCommonRaceMoralGroupsSocietyOceanIntellectualScientistSouthClimateCommunicateIncomePsychologicalEarningIdenticalChelsea Author:C.P. Snow
“That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.” PeopleThinkingSocialSkillsPicksGuitarCommunicateSocial Skills Author:Ryan Adams
“What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.” SocialPleasureGriefArgumentConnectionsCommunicateFavorsObservation Author:Sir Fulke Greville
“Social media and music in general have been changing so fast. You can go on Twitter and go from one artist to another. What I really like about it is the opportunity to communicate directly with your fans.” Has BeensArtistOpportunitySocialFansMediaGoes OnCommunicateSocial Media Author:Juanes
“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.” MindRealFactsMightSocialEnjoySeeingObjectsTaughtDiscoveryCommunicateSupremeVainAffectedUsualSurroundingsAttainmentSocial LifeExclusionUnending Book:How to Improve Your Mind Source: How to Improve Your Mind
“Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad outlook of a group are visible,... communicating and fixing certain values of religious, social, and moral life through the emotional suggestiveness of forms. It is, besides, a common ground against which innovations and individuality of particular works may be measured.” MayArtFormArtistCertainValuesSocialReligiousCommonQualityMoralGroupsStyleEmotionalParticularExpressionPersonalityInnovationIndividualityCommunicateMeaningfulVisibleBroadsOutlookAestheticsFixingCommon GroundMoral Life Book:Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society Source: Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society