Motivational Quotes

Communication

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.

Best Quotes about Communication

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Menander of Athens

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

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

Irving, Washington

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know.I want to know what is actually happening.

Abrams, Creighton

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

Geibel

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Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Teague, Jr., Freeman

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

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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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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

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

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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

28.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Humes, James

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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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Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Daly, Jeff

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

Ade, George

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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Kuhn, Thomas S.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Hutchins, Robert M.

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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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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.