Communication Quotes (586 Quotes)


    Obviously we need all our tools, helicopters, trucks, communication to be able to operate, ... We are placed in a situation where the government has not been cooperating and has limited the movements of our troops.

    It becomes a learning process. Parents don't know very much about soccer because they don't have a soccer background, so they have to rely on their children, so that increases the level of communication, hopefully, in the family.


    Tech valuations have fallen by about one-third since early-September. Although technology stocks are not at bargain basement prices, semis, communication equipment, and hardware are trading at the lower end of their five-year ranges. These sectors are also looking attractive relative to the SP 500. Wireless, storage, and software remain expensive.

    The Yugoslav army and special police seem to be trying harder than ever to capture the remaining Kosovo Liberation Army strongholds and secure their lines of communication.


    The Chinese NPC attaches importance to its ties with the South African parliament and stands ready to elevate the level of bilateral exchanges and make the communication and cooperation between the two sides regular and institutional, so as to infuse fresh vitality into Sino-South African relations.


    Our research has shown that consumers will use technology to regain control over their entertainment, research, advertising choices, communication, and services, while multi-room DVR is a key revenue generator for the industry.

    The kids are usually pretty quiet once we get to the jail. They go on a tour of all the major areas of the jail. They see the cell blocks, the communication center, the courtroom and a few other places.

    Given the escalation of catastrophe that occurred over the first three days, absolutely I would have liked to see the federal government respond quicker, more rapidly, with better command and control centers and much improved communication,



    He has a chance to play a positive role, to demonstrate some sincerity by releasing the U.N. detainees, by ordering a cease-fire, by reopening the channels of communication to discuss a genuine and credible peace process for Sierra Leone,

    I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

    Cell phones are not working, land lines are not working, so communication is almost by word of mouth, ... It's a blessing in disguise because people have started communicating with each other in a way that we used to a long time ago. 'Have you seen so and so' 'Yes, I saw so and so yesterday at this place. They were at the Home Depot trying to get ice and water.' So you know that family is OK.


    Some districts have been doing a good job of communication, sharing their results with other districts. Others haven't been doing that so well. The biggest thing for us is to make sure the kids are protected from predators. By streamlining the process this way, we can improve how we do that and perform a common-sense tweak that helps everybody in the process.

    Authority in an interactive world comes from communicating, not from avoiding communication. Explaining yourself is not navel-gazing. It's a part of democracy.

    We really played a sloppy match tonight. I am tired of saying that we did not play to our ability, but it is the truth we made some communication errors and let our guard down. We could have played a lot better tonight.


    I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

    The key ingredient is bringing guys in who have character, to build team chemistry, so that everyone is moving in the same direction, ... The other thing I thought was important was to open up the lines of communication and improve the morale in the building.

    On CNN, Jeffrey Williams, a physician at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, addressed the hospital's challenges -- along with a lack of food, water, and power generation We're not getting any information, ... Our lack of communication is a real problem.

    Were making a lot of the same mistakes which is kind of disappointing. Offensively we have some guys who can make big plays. We are getting better in compartments but need to do a better job putting everything together. That comes with experience and better communication.

    Here and there, there was a communication problem, we kind of slipped up on it. It's just playing the game together and knowing the guy has got your back as far as different sets. A couple of bad sets or just the reaction was kind of slow or something like that. Five sacks is too many. We've got to improve on that.

    It was not so much a communications breakdown as it was a communication device breakdown. So if we'd have had carrier pigeons, we'd have been using them. We'd have used smoke signals, but we didn't have water.

    After taking the press off we just want to get in the passing lanes and play good half-court defense. We're trying to pride ourselves on getting big stops in key situations. In practice this week, we worked on the communication side of defense and I thought it showed.

    I guess on that sack he got hit in the head pretty good. We couldn't figure out why he was having such a hard time getting plays in. ... Right after that sack, he was hearing it, but he wasn't sorting it out. I didn't know what was going on. I thought we had a communication problem.

    The most damaging bills were defeated. One bill that would have allowed any communication between elected officials to become private was taken out. It required a lot of work among the news media and public interest groups to stop this and all the work paid off.



    In general, people are returning to the site to find information on their peers, to make connections with friends and acquaintances, and to communicate with one another. To our mind, the fact that it's so many things at once-a reference tool, a means for communication, and a clean, fun site to use-is the central reason that people come back daily.

    Our concerns would lie in two areas. One, the lack of communication with an athlete who ultimately will be affected by the outcome of an arbitration, and two, lawyers arguing over medals 14 months after the games are concluded is not good for the Olympic movement.

    Yeah, that's something I base my game on, is a lot of communication. Bobby does it very well, being a center back. Facundo is getting better with the (English) language, and he's stepping up as well.

    It was a lack of communication defensively in terms of what we set up to do in the game plan. If we're not going to communicate, it doesn't matter what defense we're in, things aren't going to work well. They were playing smart ball. We didn't react to what they were doing.

    The language barrier, as we're finding out, was way overblown. I think he was the only one who was freaked about it. But by and large, there won't be any communication problems.


    Preventive services, school personnel, community agencies and the police are critical partners in our work, and yet wherever I turn, I see problems in communication and ill will, which each directs towards the other.

    With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

    Communication is so fast today. During the second World War you would hear the news and it would be 12 hours old. Now you hear what is happening in Iraq, and the information is five minutes old. It's not always correct. They tell you something, and then they correct themselves the next day.

    Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

    He was up all night and he was late coming in this morning, ... There's no communication, they're worried sick, so it's a very difficult time for Marshall right now.

    Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.



    The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

    We speculated what it was like before we got language skills. When we humans had our first thought, most likely we didnt know what to think. Its hard to think without words cause you havent got a clue as to what youre thinking. So if you think we suffer from a lack of communication now, think what it must have been like then, when people lived in a verbal void - made worse by the fact that there were no words such as verbal void.

    Because they (NASA) had abandoned the military style of command and gone to a corporate style, they lost the ability to have clear communication. It (Challenger disaster) is a great lesson in organizational structure and how to achieve high-risk goals.

    Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.




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