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NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. -- Shepard Fairey
The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. -- Shepard Fairey
I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people dont have. -- Shoshannah Stern
I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don't have. -- Shoshannah Stern
Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words. -- Leonard Mlodinow
A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication. -- Matthew Lesko
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. -- Abraham Maslow
I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that stimulate communication and the dark recesses of my musician's brain. -- Joshua Roman
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On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance. -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. -- Edward Sapir
Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them. -- Leonard Mlodinow
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics. -- Umberto Eco
We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present. -- Richard Dawkins
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem. -- Daniel Everett
Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go? -- Pico Iyer
What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because audience members are constantly part of the experience. What they say in their body language, what they say in their eyes, what they sing with me... it's an 'us,' and there's a communication that's like... it's like church, man. -- Al Jarreau
God doesn't need verbal language for communication. -- Mary C. Neal
The art of communication is the language of leadership. -- James Humes
The art of communication is the language of leadership. -- James Humes
The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . . -- Edward Gibbon
Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. -- Abraham Maslow
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. -- Jean Dubuffet
A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries. -- Ethan Zuckerman
Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners. -- Robert Ardrey
My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light. -- Valeria Lukyanova
I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects. -- Jimenez Lai
Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc. -- Rigoberto Gonzalez
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. -- T. S. Eliot
Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening. -- Mary Wigman
There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form. -- Matthew Bellamy
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. -- Walt Disney
Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication. -- Oren Arnold
Proper posture sends a positive message since 90% of all communication occures through body language and how you carry yourself. -- Cindy Ann Peterson
Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive. -- Ansel Adams
Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have. -- CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories. -- Kenneth Goldsmith
Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand. -- Allan Bloom
Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently. -- Stephen Stills
Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display. -- Dionne Brand
When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself. -- Karl Jaspers
While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or evolution. -- Noam Chomsky
Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later. -- Gene Wolfe
What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands. -- Miuccia Prada
I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important. -- Marina Abramovic
The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images. -- Luigi Ghirri
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it. -- Lou Rawls
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted. -- F. Sionil Jose
Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a medium for introspective reflection. -- Richard Leakey
Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something. -- William Mortensen
The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society. -- Pedro Passos Coelho
Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning environment that support the development of autonomy and interdependence in the classroom. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg

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