Motivational Quotes

Communication

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

Best Quotes about Communication

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Warren, Earl

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

Geibel

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

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

Irving, Washington

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The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Humes, James

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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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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Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Daly, Jeff

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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Menander of Athens

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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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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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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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Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.

Piece, John A.

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Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

White, Elwyn Brooks