Motivational Quotes

Communication

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

Best Quotes about Communication

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Kuhn, Thomas S.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 careful application of terror is also a form of communication.

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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

Milton, John

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Judith Martin

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

Haskins, Henry S.

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

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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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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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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The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Humes, James

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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