Motivational Quotes

Communication

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Communication

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Menander of Athens

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

Judith Martin

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

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

Lehrer, Tom

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

Milton, John

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Irving, Washington

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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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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

12.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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

15.

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

Geibel

19.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

20.

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Teague, Jr., Freeman

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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

25.

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

Haskins, Henry S.

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

Carnegie, Dale

29.

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

Ade, George

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

32.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

34.

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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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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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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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Daly, Jeff

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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