Quotations about Communication
I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
~Louis Armstrong
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writing, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it.
~William Bernbach
The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what you're saying, and they can't know what you're saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting unless you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.
~William Bernbach
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
~Paul William "Bear" Bryant
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
~Carl W. Buechner
You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
~Dale Carnegie
Never mistake legibility for communication.
~David Carson
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll understand.
~Confucius
I have found that it does not help, in the long run, to begin my inquiries from the standpoint of the world as a problem to be solved. I am more effective, quite simply, as long as I can retain the spirit of inquiry of the everlasting beginner.
~David Cooperrider
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
~Peter F. Drucker
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
~Epictetus
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
~Epictetus
If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view - as well as your own.
~Henry Ford
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
~Robert Half
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
~Ernest Hemingway
Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
~Alice Hoffman
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.
~Washington Irving
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
~Henry Kaiser
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.
~Larry King
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
~Abraham Lincoln
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, "You are wrong." This method works every time.
~Henry Link
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
~Naguib Mahfouz
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
~Margaret Miller
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
~Dr. Laurence J. Peter
Communication works for those who work at it.
~John Powell
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
~Anthony Robbins
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.
~Anthony Robbins
If you want to build a ship, then don't drum up men to gather wood, give orders, and divide the work. Rather, teach them to yearn for the far and endless sea.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Give every man thy ear but few thy voice.
~William Shakespeare
The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.
~George Bernard Shaw
Give me the gift of a listening heart.
~ King Solomon
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
~Henry David Thoreau
If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.
~Turkish Proverb
If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
~Mark Twain
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
~Lao Tzu
The extent to which you are able to transform your self-concern into other-concern will determine your effectiveness in getting others to follow along.
~author unknown