You hear people saying: “Of course I can communicate to people!” “Well, yes! There’s nothing to it. I’m a salesman, you know.” “I run the Atomic Energy Comission.” “I’m a big man! Of course I communicate to anyone.”
«The one who can really communicate to others is a greater being who will create a new world.» – L. Ron Hubbard
We look in that man’s vicinity and nobody’s heard anything he’s said since the days of Noah’s Ark. He never said it to anybody in the first place. He sort of throws things out, you know, and he just hopes they land. Well, that’s what passes for communication, and it isn’t by a long ways – he throws out a statement of some sort or another and he thinks he’s communicating with somebody.
The only thing that you can talk to in the final analysis is a living being, and all groups are composed of individuals.
There was a fellow by the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt that never talked to the nation – he never talked to the nation – he talked to an individual citizen. And therefore he communicated.
There was another fellow who spoke the most beautiful English I have ever heard, almost incomprehensibly parsed. Perfect. Would have passed any Oxford English Professor’s most critical look, and that was Herbert Hoover. And I don’t think Herbert Hoover ever said “hello!” to a dog. I don’t think in his whole life he ever said anything to anybody anywhere. And when this man uttered speeches they pronounced nothing to anybody anywhere.
He couldn’t lead anything for an excellent reason. He had no concept in the final analysis of talking to an individual, of getting his communication to land right there.
The only secrets in communication are the answers you never got. Communication is so thoroughly important today, as it always has been, that it could be said that if you would get a person into communication you would get him well.
The only secrets in communication are the answers you never got.