{"quotes":[{"text":"Yet the possibility of information storage, beyond what men and governments ever had before, can make available at the touch of a button a man's total history (including remarks put on his record by his kindergarten teacher about his ability and character). And with the computer must be placed the modern scientific technical capability which exists for wholesale monitoring of telephone, cable, Telex and microwave transmissions which carry much of today's spoken and written communications. The combined use of the technical capability of listening in on all these forms of communications with the high-speed computer literally leaves no place to hide and little room for privacy.","author":"Francis A. Schaeffer","tags":["communications","computer","government","privacy"],"id":948,"author_id":"Francis+A.+Schaeffer"},{"text":"The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication / connection is the door.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["bonding","building-relationships","business-strategy","communications","connection","customer-service","empathy","influence","influencing-skills","inspiring-business","interpersonal-skills","making-an-impact","marketing","networking-skills","online-loneliness","psychology","on-relationships","on-social-media","rasheed-ogunlaru","rasheed-ogunlaru","social-media-advice","the-internet","winning-customers"],"id":18618,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"Trust leads to approachability and open communications.","author":"Scott Weiss","tags":["open","communications","leads "],"id":37987,"author_id":"Scott+Weiss"},{"text":"Art is whatever you can get away with.","author":"Marshall McLuhan","tags":["art","communications","media","philosophy"],"id":99762,"author_id":"Marshall+McLuhan"},{"text":"Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["activist","adulterers","altruism","being-human","bias","caring","cheaters","commuicator","communications","community-member","compassion","complainers","crime","earth","empathetic","environment","forgiving","helper","helping-out","homeless","human-trafficing","hypocrite","kindness","liars","marine-conservation","medical-missions","mental-disorder-bias","mental-health-stigma","morals","oceans","open","outdoors","pollution","respect-for-the-world","respect-life","respect-nature","service","service-project","simplistic","social-issues","theif","theology","uneducated","values","vulnerable"],"id":132588,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our skills are tested and refined.","author":"Marian Deegan","tags":["authenticity","communications","distraction","emotional","interactions","matter-more","nuance","refined","relevance","skills","test"],"id":143967,"author_id":"Marian+Deegan"},{"text":"I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they died, I wrote a book; why not a letter? A mysterious but truthful answer is that while I can gear myself up to do a novel, letters, real-life communications, are too much for me. I used to rattle them off easily enough; why is the challenge of writing to friends and acquaintances too much for me now? Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key--as if I no longer understood the codes used by the estimable people who wanted to hear from me and would have so much to reply if only the impediments were taken away.","author":"Saul Bellow","tags":["communications","correspondence","letters","loners","solitude"],"id":147733,"author_id":"Saul+Bellow"},{"text":"Don’t assume your partner knows about everything you expect in a relationship. Let them know. A relationship should be based on communication, not on assumptions.","author":"Turcois Ominek","tags":["assume","communications","expectations","love","relationship-advice","relationships","truth"],"id":172900,"author_id":"Turcois+Ominek"},{"text":"Be a good listener. With rapt attention, let every communication or conversation you have with your mentor, friends or even strangers be well understood.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["attention","chat","communicate","communication","communications","communicative-skills","companions","connections","conversation","converse","food-for-thought","friend","friendly","friends","friendship","good","good-listener","israelmore-ayivor","listen","listener","mentor","pay-attention","speak","speaking","strangers","talk","understand","understanding"],"id":214789,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called 'state security' in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court—and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki.","author":"Mark Gevisser","tags":["2009","african-national-congress","apartheid","communications","crime","criminal-justice","cronyism","jacob-zuma","justice","minister-of-state-security","national-security","police","reconciliation","south-africa","stalinism","thabo-mbeki"],"id":232015,"author_id":"Mark+Gevisser"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}