Motivational Quotes

Communication

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

Best Quotes about Communication

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Judith Martin

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

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

Irving, Washington

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

Geibel

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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

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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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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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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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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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A phoneless cord is a great device for people who love peace and quiet.

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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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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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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

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

Frost, Robert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

Milton, John

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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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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.

30.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

31.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Piece, John A.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

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

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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

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

Ade, George