INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : COMMUNICATION

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : COMMUNICATION
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 single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. Dr. Laurence J. Peter

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato

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

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

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 Patton Thoele

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

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

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

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. George Eliot

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. Charlie Kaufman

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. Jim Rohn

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Abigail Adams

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand. Sir Edward Appleton

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. Gaston Bachelard

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words. Aprocrypha

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. Tom Lehrer

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

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. Pearl S. Buck

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world. Enrique Iglesias

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning. Rosenstock Huessy

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk. M. Chase Smith