Motivational Quotes

Communication

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Communication

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 careful application of terror is also a form of communication.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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.

Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Irving, Washington

10.

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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 whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Frost, Robert

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Teague, Jr., Freeman

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

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

Geibel

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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

31.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Of what does not concern you say nothing good or bad.

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

Ade, George

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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

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Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Kuhn, Thomas S.

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

Haskins, Henry S.

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

Piece, John A.

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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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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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Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Daly, Jeff

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