Motivational Quotes

Communication

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Communication

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.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Haskins, Henry S.

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Frost, Robert

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Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Daly, Jeff

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Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Teague, Jr., Freeman

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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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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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Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Kuhn, Thomas S.

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

Banham, John

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

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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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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

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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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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

Milton, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Ade, George

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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