Motivational Quotes

Communication

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

- Lehrer, Tom

Best Quotes about Communication

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.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Humes, James

It's vital the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Geibel

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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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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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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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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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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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Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Kuhn, Thomas S.

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Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

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

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Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Teague, Jr., Freeman

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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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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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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

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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