Motivational Quotes

Communication

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

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Best Quotes about Communication

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Humes, James

Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

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.

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

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

What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don't forget that feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication.

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

Irving, Washington

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

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

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

Frost, Robert

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Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Teague, Jr., Freeman

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Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Kuhn, Thomas S.

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

Haskins, Henry S.

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Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Daly, Jeff

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Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Warren, Earl

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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Ade, George

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

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He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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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A phoneless cord is a great device for people who love peace and quiet.

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I wish people that have trouble communicating would just shut up!

Lehrer, Tom

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

Geibel

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Of what does not concern you say nothing good or bad.

Proverb, Italian

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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

Milton, John

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

Banham, John

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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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If you cry Forward you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

Chekhov, Anton