Communication Theory Quotes

“Prior to the age of telegraphy, the information-action ratio was sufficiently close so that most people had a sense of being able to control some of the contingencies in their lives. What people knew about had action-value. In the information world created by telegraphy, this sense of potency was lost, precisely because the whole world became context for news. Everything became everyone's business. For the first time, we were sent information which answered no question we had asked, and which, in any case, did not permit the right of reply.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique' (1843)

{Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,' from the Greek (Kybernetes = navigator or steersman), subsequently adopted as cybernetics by Norbert Wiener for the field of control and communication theory.}”
― André-Marie Ampère

“Communication without a specific focus is just noise. It achieves little beyond taking time and energy.”
― David Amerland, Google+ Hangouts for Business: How to use Google+ Hangouts to Improve Brand Impact, Build Business and Communicate in Real-Time

“Creativity is our one ubiquitous commonality so perhaps that is where all constructive communication should begin.”
― Ken Poirot

“If you can say it in a paragraph, don’t write a book.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“An effective correspondence leaves no room for confusion between you
and your clients.”
― Sim Ngezahayo, Essentials of Career Management for Language Professionals: A Blueprint for Mastering your Career and Leading a Healthy Work-Life Balance

“They aren't texts, Gregorius. What people say aren't texts. They simply talk.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“An effective correspondence leaves no room for confusion between you and your clients.”
― Sim Ngezahayo, Essentials of Career Management for Language Professionals: A Blueprint for Mastering your Career and Leading a Healthy Work-Life Balance

“Inspiration consists of two-sided communication. From one person, expression flows into sensitive ears, recognition to the eyes, tastes to the tongue, or as a scent to a nose. Information flows from the one who is touching to another being touched and into the mind of the recipient. This is communication.”
― Laura Bartnick, BEING CREATIVE