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Communication Quotes

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Seek not so much to be understood as to understand.

– St. Francis of Assisi

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

– Sir Richard Steele

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

– Ernest Hemingway

Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

– Will Durant

Nobody talks much who doesn’t say unwise things – things he did not mean to say. Talk, to me, is only spading up the ground for crops of thought. I can’t answer for what will turn up.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes

No one means all he says, and yet few say all they mean. For words are slippery and thought is vicious.

– Henry Brooks Adams

Never tell all that you know, or do all that you can, or believe all that you hear.

– Portuguese proverb

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

– Chinese Proverb

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

– Victor Peale

Most people have a furious itch to talk about themselves and are restrained only by the disinclination of others to listen. Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

– William Somerset Maugham

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

– Margaret Millar

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

– Margaret Millar

Management is like writing in the snow. You’ve got to keep repeating the message over and over.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

– Adlai Stevenson

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

– Sir William Osler

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

– Colossians 4:6

I’ve never found an interesting person with a foul mouth.

– Marilyn vos Savant

It’s important to talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they’ll say, “Gosh, he said exactly what I was thinking.” And when they begin to respect you, they’ll follow you to the death. The reason they’re following you is not because you’re providing some mysterious leadership. It’s because you’re following them.

– Lee Iacocca

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

– Caron De Beaumarchais, the Barber of Seville

It is better to use short common words and be thought half-educated than to utilize sesquipedantic locutions and remove all doubt.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

– Charles Baudelaire

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

– Richard Armour

It because very convenient for people to switch their positions when they are allowed to use vague language or information. Challenge them!

In the last analysis, what we ARE communicates far more eloquently than anything we SAY.

I’m going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

– S.I. Hayakawa

If you’re not sick and tired of communicating, you’re not doing it enough.

– Charlie Shedd

If you want to build trust in a relationship, make sure you use appropriate body language. When you speak to someone, face them directly, (nose to nose, toes to toes) rather than at an angle where their perception may be that you are giving them the “cold shoulder.”

If you explain so clearly that no one can misunderstand, somebody will.

If you don’t give people information, they’ll make up something to fill the void.

– Carla O’Dell

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