Communication Quotes
If you want to 'get in touch with your feelings,' fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. -William Safire
The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished. -George Bernard Shaw
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. -Peter Drucker
Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act. -James Thurber
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
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. -Anthony Robbins
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break. -Earl Wilson
Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.- Ashleigh Brilliant
It seems that an essential condition for crises is to be found in the existence of a highly developed system of communications and the spreading of a homogenous mentality over vast areas.- Jakob Burckhardt
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo C. Rosten
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Effective communication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel about what you know. - E. James 'Jim' Rohn
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. - Napoleon Bonaparte
We could have no communication whatever with our surroundings if they were absolutely foreign to us. Man is reaping success every day, and that shows there is a rational connection between him and nature, for we never can make anything our own except that which is truly related to us. - Sir Rabindranath Tagore
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. - Rebecca West
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. - Bertolt Brecht
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. - Pearl S. Buck
Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively. - Norman Allen
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Ann Morrow Lindbergh
Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action. -Anonymous
Communication works for those who work at it.- John Powell
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.-Peter Drucker
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
When all other means of communication fail, try words. -Anonymous
Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore, I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication. -Groucho Marx
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. -Pearl S. Buck
Communication - the human connection--is the key to personal and career success. -Paul J. Meyer
Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches. -Ashleigh Brilliant
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. -Margaret Miller
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.- Pythagoras
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. -Michel de Montaigne
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. -André Gide
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.-Rollo May
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
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. -Yogi Berra
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.- Erma Bombeck
How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.- Norman Douglas
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.-William Butler Yeats
There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something.-John Dewey
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. -Epictetus
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. -Democritus
Effective communications starts with listening. -Robert Gately