Motivational Quotes

Communication

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

Best Quotes about Communication

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Banham, John

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Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Kuhn, Thomas S.

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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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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

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Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Daly, Jeff

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

Lehrer, Tom

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The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Humes, James

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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

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

Frost, Robert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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'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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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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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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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Menander of Athens

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Geibel

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

Piece, John A.

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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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Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Teague, Jr., Freeman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

Milton, John

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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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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