Motivational Quotes

Communication

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.

Best Quotes about Communication

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

Banham, John

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

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

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Humes, James

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

Haskins, Henry S.

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.

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

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

Irving, Washington

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

Geibel

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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 depositing a part of yourself in another person.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

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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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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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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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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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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Menander of Athens

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

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Daly, Jeff

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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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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Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Teague, Jr., Freeman

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Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Kuhn, Thomas S.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

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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 whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

Milton, John

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Ade, George