Communication Quotes And Sayings

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“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.”
– Locke, John

“My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.”
– Margaret Chase Smith

“[A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about.”
– Margaret J. Wheatley

“If you have nothing to say, say nothing.”
– Mark Twain

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
– Mark Twain

“Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.”
– Marshall Rosenberg

“You can’t make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn’t made them wish they had.”
– Marshall Rosenberg

“Any communication or marketing professional needs cross-cultural research and communication skills to be able to succeed in the future.”
– Marye Tharp

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou

“It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.”
– Menander of Athens

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
– Mother Teresa

“Communication is the real work of leadership.”
– Nitin Nohria

“Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.”
– Oliver Goldsmith

“Communication–the human connection–is the key to personal and career success”
– Paul J. Meyer

“Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk.”
– Peggy Noonan

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
– Plato

“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”
– Rachel Naomi Remen

“Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.”
– Rachel Naomi Remen

“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.”
– Ralph Nichols

“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person’s mind.”
– Rebecca West

“We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.”
– Richard M. Nixon

“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, and wants it down.”
– Robert Frost

“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.”
– Robert Frost

“A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea’s and common ideals.”
– “Robert M. Hutchins
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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.”
– Simone Weil

“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.”
– Stephen King

“In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.”
– Stephen R. Covey

“Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.”
– Sue Patton Thoele

“The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.”
– Sydney J. Harris

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