Motivational Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Menander of Athens

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The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Humes, James

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

Ade, George

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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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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

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

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

Piece, John A.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Banham, John

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

Frost, Robert

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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

Milton, John

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

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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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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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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

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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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Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale