Modern Communication Quotes

• The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.

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  Russell Baker

  Communication   Thought Provoking   Miracle  

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• Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

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  Charles Dickens

  Communication   Thought Provoking   Bravery  

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• The Internet is the great highway of the modern communication, free and independent.

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  Katya Chamma

  Communication   Independent   Internet  

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• Space may seem distant, but is an integral part of our daily life. It drives our modern communication and connects even the remotest family to the ordinary. India's space programme is a perfect example of our vision of Scale, Speed and Skill.

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  Narendra Modi

  Communication   Technology   Skills  

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• The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information. The latter is a tendency which our important and influential modern communications media can encourage. Information is important, but it is not enough. All too often things get simplified, different positions and viewpoints are pitted against one another, and people are invited to take sides, rather than to see things as a whole.

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  Pope Francis

  Communication   Media   People  

  Pope Francis' Message For The 49th World Communications Day, w2.vatican.va. January 23, 2015.

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• Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.

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  Kurt Vonnegut

  Encouragement   Giving Up   Communication  

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Bluebeard”, p.34, Random House

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• Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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  Simone Weil

  God   Wall   Communication  

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.200, U of Nebraska Press

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• Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.

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  Bill W.

  Communication   Imagination   Use  

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• Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and you have a lot of people in the world pretty unhappy with things as they are. Modern communications make all of this known to people far and wide, and we see the fundamental unfairness of it all.

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  Michael Yates

  Country   Communication   Thinking  

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

  2006

• Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English tongue, as the medium of all modern communication, is so great that I can witness without a sigh the gradual decline of the Irish language.

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  Daniel O'Connell

  Communication   Heart   History  

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• The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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  George Bernard Shaw

  Relationship   Sarcastic   Funny Inspirational  

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• If there's one thing that the Web has changed about modern communication, it's that we've at long last done away with the archaic idea that publishing is the private playground of people who have ideas, experiences, and opinions.

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  Lore Sjoberg

  Communication   Ideas   Long  

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• Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.

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  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Communication   Years   Law  

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.

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  Marshall McLuhan

  Art   Communication   Feelings  

  "Essential McLuhan" edited by Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone, (p. 73), 1995.

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