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“Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.”

Sound Television Expression Communication Prove Asking Communicate Gestures Speakers Facial Watchers Facial Expression

Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

“We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.”

Problem Sound Voice Ability Environment Military Communication Tests Backgrounds Superiors Code Selection Noisy Personnel

Author:M. H. Abrams

“Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling.”

Source: Foundation Trilogy

“Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.”

Sound Interesting Communication Music Is Deeper

Author:Evelyn Glennie

“Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a responsibility, it's our chief pleasure.”

Wells Hands Might Pain Sound Pleasure Results Responsibility Communication Scientist Chiefs Therapy Injury Clapping

Book:The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life

Source: The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life

“I'm going to show you a technology today which takes insults and criticisms out of the airwaves. (Marshall puts on giraffe ears) With this technology, it will be impossible for you to hear criticisms, harsh remarks, or insults. All you can hear is what all people are ever saying, "please" and "thank you". What used to sound like criticism, judgment, or blame, you will see, are really tragic, suicidal expressions of "please".”

“The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands. But there's a difference between a private conversation and a presidential election, between what we want from our leaders.”