Languages & Communication Quotes

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.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

Working with language requires beauty for me.

Communication is always important, but it's a separate type of language in football.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

Music is the soul of language.

Language is just a communication tool; it is the content that decides the fate of a film.

My dad taught me that language was a powerful tool.

Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.

Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the old language allows you to keep your sense of 'who you are.' It preserves your identity. With two languages, you have the best of both worlds.

When it comes to personal communication, words are all we've got. It is the simple use of language that makes us human beings.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Communication is the channel through which life is conveyed, through which ideas and the energy behind them are transmitted, and through which the mind, body, and spirit are merged into a force for right action.

Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.

Language is a virus from outer space.

Millions of children all over the world live in silence and face communication barriers - and, particularly, access to education.

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.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

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.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

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.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.

Why do only the Latin script when Nokia has a billion consumers? Typography is the bedrock of communication; it can really connect people.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

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.

English is the medium of communication for people all over India.