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I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You do not need to have direct communication. You can say, I can not describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

What does music mean to me? I do not think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It is my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

I can not be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that is what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that is the kind of coach I want to be.

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

That is why I do this music business thing, it is communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

You are talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in 86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

People recognize certain things, like D means this dialogue stinks. We are dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.

I do not think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it is just as much the players fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.

I slept for four years. I did not study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.