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

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

Milton, John

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

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

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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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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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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

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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 everyone's panacea for everything.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Haskins, Henry S.

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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

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Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Teague, Jr., Freeman

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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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Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Daly, Jeff

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Geibel

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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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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Menander of Athens

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

Irving, Washington

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Frost, Robert

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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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The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.