Motivational Quotes

Communication

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?

- Burton, Bruce

Best Quotes about Communication

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Weil, Simone

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

Lehrer, Tom

I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

Banham, John

To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.

Geibel

It's vital the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

White, Elwyn Brooks

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.

Piece, John A.

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Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Rohn, Jim

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The higher you go, the wider spreads the network of communication that will make or break you. It extends not only to more people below, but to new levels above. And it extends all around, to endless other departments and interests interacting with yours.

Walton, Donald

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To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Robbins, Anthony

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Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Teague, Jr., Freeman

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Use non-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S = Smile O = Open Posture F = Forward Lean T = Touch E = Eye Contact N = Nod.

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Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.

Brown, Les

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The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?

Burton, Bruce

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Ninety-nine percent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings which develop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

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The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Irving, Washington

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Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Rohn, Jim

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You people are telling me what you think I want to know.I want to know what is actually happening.

Abrams, Creighton

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Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.

Stowell, Joseph

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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Judith Martin

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Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

Frost, Robert

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We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

Truman, Harry S

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The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively, but says nothing.

Haskins, Henry S.

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For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

Ade, George

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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Carnegie, Dale

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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Carnegie, Dale

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Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

Whately, Richard

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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

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The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Humes, James

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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Dickens, Charles

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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

Hutchins, Robert M.

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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

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Don't hide your strategy under a bushel. Communicate it throughout your company. It's better today to disclose too much than too little.

Ross, Joel E.

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In the last analysis, what we ARE communicates far more eloquently than anything we SAY.

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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Menander of Athens

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Get in touch with the way the other person feels. Feelings are 55% body language, 38% tone and 7% words.

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Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Peters, Thomas J.

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I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in conference, are adaptable. They quickly get the other fellow's view. They are more eager to do this than to express their own ideas. Also, they state their own point of view convincingly.

Hallock, John

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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Frost, Robert

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Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Kuhn, Thomas S.