Communications Quotes

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

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

A different language is a different vision of life.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

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

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

The most important thing you wear is the expression on your face

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.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

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

Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict.

Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

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

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

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

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

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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

You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.

Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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

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

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.

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

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

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

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

Peace is accomplished by reducing tension through sometimes difficult communication.

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

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

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

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

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

The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

Get in touch with the way the other person feels.

Feelings are 55% body language, 38% tone and 7% words.

Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

If then the power of speech is as great as any that can be named,