Yoko Ono Quotes

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

For there to be communication within a couple, it is enough for there to be only one person who communicates or who really wants to communicate. Even though a couple consists of two people, if one of the people in a couple puts all their effort into moving a couple along they will move along.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

Mistrust and misunderstanding are the major obstacles for people getting together .

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I have my mother. I love her very much, but on many issues, we will never find a common language, because she simply doesn't understand many things.

'Translations Through Speakers' was literally, I'm translating very spottily what my aspirations are.

When I was young as a teenager, that was the biggest mystery in the world to me: Why don't people connect?

If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.

It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.

Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening?

People who don't like musicals like, 'why are they singing? Why aren't they just talking? If you make the lyric feel really conversational, it's much easier for them to bridge that gap.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.

There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication.

Between what I think, what I want to say, what I believe I say, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe to hear, what you hear, what you want to understand, what you think you understand, what you understand...They are ten possibilities that we might have some problem communicating. But let's try anyway...

The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are saying. However, when we turn around and come face-to-face with our destiny, we discover that words are not enough.

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.