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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Daly, Jeff

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Kuhn, Thomas S.

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

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

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

You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen to you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, No Shit! or at least, No kidding!

Boardman, Gael

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.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

Milton, John

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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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Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Ade, George

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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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Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Banham, John

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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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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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The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Humes, James

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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 whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Judith Martin

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

Haskins, Henry S.

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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

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The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.

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Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures --in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Irving, Washington

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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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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

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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