Quotations - Communication

Criticism’s Bad, Feedback, Good. Appreciation is better. Praise is best. Why give good or better when we can give the BEST!

Good words or deeds may be misunderstood. What's important is your intentions and actions not their assumptions and reactions! - Ian Faria

We flow when we live and seek. We grow when we strive and speak. We glow when we thrive and peak. - Ian Faria

Listening is deciphering the spoken word; Understanding is extrapolating the unspoken intention. - Ian Faria

Look to get Learning, Listen to Understand. Speak to Enlighten, Team up to Expand. - Ian Faria

Listening is deciphering the spoken word; Understanding is extrapolating the unspoken intention. - Ian Faria

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred. - George Bernard Shaw

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super-sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. - Erma Bombeck

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

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. - Epictetus

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. - Anthony Robbins

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. - Joseph Priestley

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way. - John Kotter

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

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

Communication--the human connection--is the key to personal and career success. - Paul J. Meyer

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use - Washington Irving

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

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul. - Konstantin Stanislavsky

Person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it. - Tom Lehrer

Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send. - Joseph Badaracco

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

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. - Walt Disney

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. - Heinrich Heine

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all - Democritus

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something. - John Dewey

Who speaks, sows; Who listens, reaps. - Argentine Proverb

Communication works for those who work at it. - John Powell

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. - Lao Tzu

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms - Voltaire

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy. - Bill Cosby

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well - John Marshall

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. - Earl Wilson

Two monologues do not make a dialogue. - Jeff Daly

Of those who say nothing, few are silent. - Thomas Neiel

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much. - Germain G. Glien

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. - Margaret Millar

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. - John Ruskin

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

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. - Winston Churchill

The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid. - Author Unknown

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. - Quentin Crisp

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. - Edgar Allan Poe

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet. - Ann Landers

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. - Hermann Hesse

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Dorothy Nevill

The easiest way to save face is to keep the lower half shut. - Author Unknown

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut. - Author Unknown

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. - Orson Rega Card

Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment. - Ira Gassen

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. - Josh Billings

Foolishness always results when the tongue outraces the brain. - Author Unknown

The words you choose to say something are just as important as the decision to speak. - Author Unknown

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times. - Ralph Waldo Emerson