Verbal Communication Quotes

• Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you dont use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.

  Rick Pitino

  Art, Communication, Technology

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• 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.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Spiritual, Communication

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 08, 2015

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• 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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Communication

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

  Peter Drucker

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Communication, Humor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410

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

  Charles Dickens

  Communication, Thought Provoking, Bravery

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• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  Hans Hofmann

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  1967 Search for the Real.

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• There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Communication, Ties

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• Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

  Abraham Maslow

  Communication, Way, Language

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• There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

  John Dewey

  Communication, Ties, Community

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Education, Business

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• There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Communication, Artist, Thinking

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• You can communicate by responding with your body or with a hand clap, with a laugh or with a smile, with non-verbal communication.

  Guillermo E. Brown

  Communication, Hands, Laughing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

  Virgil Thomson

  Communication, Musician, Impossible

  Virgil Thomson (2016). “The State of Music: A Library of America E-Book Classic”, p.21, Library of America

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• To learn a thing in life and through doing is much more developing, cultivating, and strengthening than to learn it merely through the verbal communication of ideas.

  Friedrich Frobel

  Communication, Things In Life, Ideas

  Johann Friedrich Herbart, Friedrich Fröbel (1977). “The science of education”

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• But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

  Abraham Maslow

  Communication, Defense, Way

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• When talking w/kids its not what we say but how we say it! Think about your tone of voice & non-verbal communication.
  When talking to my kids I can get them to listen better by not talking down to them, but talking to them at eyeball level

  Kevin Heath

  Communication, Kids, Parenting

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• If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him man-hope of purpose and significance, love, motions of morality and rationality, beauty and verbal communication-are ultimately unfulfillable and thus meaningless.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Communication, Men, Purpose

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• Kylie bit down on her lip. Burnett took a step forward. He squared his shoulders, empathy filling his eyes. He took a deep, apparent heartfelt breath and looked at Kylie. She nodded at him as if giving him the lead. He looked back at Holiday and, in a deep voice, said, "Kylie has something to tell you." Kylie's mouth fell open and right then she knew it was official. Men sucked at verbal communication especially where anything emotional was concerned.

  C.C. Hunter

  Communication, Holiday, Eye

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