Quotes about communication

"You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening."

Abrams, Creighton on communication
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"For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver."

Ade, George on communication   

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic on communication   

"The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably."

Atwell on communication   

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

Banham, John on communication   

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

Baruch, Bernard M. on 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 on communication   

"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 on communication   

"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 on communication   

"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 on communication
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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 on communication
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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 on communication   

"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."

Colby, Frank Moore on communication   

"Two monologues do not make a dialogue."

Daly, Jeff on communication
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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 on communication   

"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 on communication
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"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."

Drucker, Peter F. on communication
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"The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done."

Drucker, Peter F. on communication   

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

Eliot, T. S. on communication
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"When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on communication
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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. on communication   

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down"

Frost, Robert on communication   

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

Geibel on communication   

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on communication
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"Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative."

Goldsmith, Oliver on communication   

"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 on communication   

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

Haskins, Henry S. on communication   

"There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions."

Hello, Ernest on communication   

"The art of communication is the language of leadership."

Humes, James on communication
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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. on communication   

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

Irving, Washington on communication
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"Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial."

Kuhn, Thomas S. on communication   

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

Lehrer, Tom on communication
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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 on communication
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"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met."

Lincoln, Abraham on communication   

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on communication   

"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse."

Locke, John on communication   

"It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions."

Menander of Athens on communication   

"Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows."

Milton, John on communication