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Communication Quotes

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Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman’s substitute for conscience. It is the communicator’s substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

– Russell Lynes

Communication without compassion is brutality.

– Sharon Johnson

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes form being open to all the questions.

– Earl Gray Stevens

Caution: a lie told repeatedly can take on the air of truth.

Blessed is he who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

– Wendell Johnson

All questions are valid. There is no such thing as a stupid or dumb question. Questions simply reflect the perspective and present knowledge of the questioner.

– Grant M. Bright

Aim on maximizing the CQ between yourself and others.

– John Steward

A text, without a context, is but a pretext.

A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

A man’s judgment cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him no news, or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy, or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning process and make him somewhat less than a man.

– Arthur Hays Sulzberger

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it’s a whisper.

– Barry Neil Kaufman

A gossiper is a person who talks to you about others. A dull person is a person who talks to you about themselves. An interesting person is a person to talks to you about yourself.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

– GK Chesterton

A diplomat is one who can tell a man he’s open-minded when he means he has a hole in his head.

99% of all problems in communications start with mis-understandings which develop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

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