Motivational Quotes

Communication

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Communication

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Humes, James

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

Piece, John A.

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

Haskins, Henry S.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Rohn, Jim

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

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

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

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Irving, Washington

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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

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

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

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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

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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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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Menander of Athens

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Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Daly, Jeff

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Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Kuhn, Thomas S.

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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

Milton, John

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

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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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Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Ade, George

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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.