Motivational Quotes

Communication

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Communication

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Warren, Earl

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Kuhn, Thomas S.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Teague, Jr., Freeman

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

Banham, John

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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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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Menander of Athens

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

Milton, John

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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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The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Humes, James

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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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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

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

Ade, George