Communication Quotes - Page 5

• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Communication is the universal solvent.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Universal

  L. Ron Hubbard (1994). “Communication”, Bridge Publications, Incorporated

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• An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Music, Silence, Inability

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• Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

  Theodore White

  Mean, Power, America

  Theodore Harold White (1973). “The making of the President, 1972”, Scribner

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• As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.

  Prince Philip

  Mouths, Happens, Has Beens

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• What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between.

  Robert Motherwell

  Heart, Interesting, Looks

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• For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

  George Ade

  Life, Vagueness, Use

  George Ade (1901). “Forty Modern Fables”, p.44, Library of Alexandria

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• Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Sarcastic, Humor

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• Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Peace, Life And Love, Work

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Inspirational, Grieving, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne, Antoine JAY (1842). “The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne; Comprising; the Essays, Translated by Cotton; the Letters; the Journey Into Germany and Italy, Now First Translated; a Life by the Editor; Notes: ... Critical Opinions; ... the Éloges of MM. Jay and Villemain; a”, p.457

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• I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Thinking, Complaining

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

  Peter Drucker

  Funny, Humor, Important

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• It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

  Marya Mannes

  People, Progress, Groups

  Marya Mannes (1986). “The Best of Marya Mannes”

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• I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

  Don DeLillo

  Art, Reality, Years

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Language, Revolutionary, Rebellious

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.148, University of Chicago Press

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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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• I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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• 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 Thoele

  Summer, Judging, Miracle

  Sue Patton Thoele (2000). “Heart centered marriage: fulfilling our natural desire for sacred partnership”

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• I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Player, Appreciate, Helping

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• Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.

  Meg Whitman

  Heart, Community, Ecommerce

  "EBay to buy Internet telephone company Skype / $2.6 billion deal will give online auction sellers, buyers another way to communicate" by September 13, 2005, www.sfgate.com. September 13, 2005.

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• The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Technology, Language, Computer

  On receiving the "Family of Man" Award, 1964.

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• We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

  Harry S. Truman

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  "Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)" by M.P. Singh, p. 101, January 1, 2005.

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• People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Funny, Art, Humor

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• There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

  Rebecca West

  Language, Illusion, Conversation

  The Harsh Voice "There Is No Conversation" (1935)

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• Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them.

  Edwin H Friedman

  Moving, Emotional, People

  Edwin H. Friedman (2013). “Friedman's Fables”, p.13, Guilford Press

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