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

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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.

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

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

Haskins, Henry S.

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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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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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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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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

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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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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Geibel

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Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Daly, Jeff

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

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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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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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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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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

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

Rohn, Jim

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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

Milton, John

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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 tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Irving, Washington

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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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

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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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I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

Banham, John

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Kuhn, Thomas S.