Motivational Quotes

Communication

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Communication

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

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

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

Carnegie, Dale

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Kuhn, Thomas S.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Geibel

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

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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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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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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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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.

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Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

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

Piece, John A.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Menander of Athens

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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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Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Teague, Jr., Freeman

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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

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

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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 whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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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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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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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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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ade, George

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Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Daly, Jeff

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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