Motivational Quotes

Communication

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

- Judith Martin

Best Quotes about Communication

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

Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

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

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

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

Lehrer, Tom

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.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Irving, Washington

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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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

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The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Humes, James

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

Ade, George

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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Menander of Athens

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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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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

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

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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

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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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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 everyone's panacea for everything.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Geibel

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh