Communication Problems Quotes

• The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Relationship, Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational

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

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Confidence

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 18, 2016

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• Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation that you don't want to have.

  Gay Hendricks

  Communication, Want, Problem

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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

  Communication, Technology, Language

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

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• A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed.

  John Cleese

  Funny, Sarcastic, Should Have

  John Cleese, Connie Booth (2001). “The Complete Fawlty Towers”, p.164, Da Capo Press

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• Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.

  John Rosemond

  Communication, Deceit, Four

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• If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.

  Story Musgrave

  Communication, Numbers, Priorities

  Academy of Archievment interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Try saying this: 'What's true for me today is that I have angry feelings concerning what I heard you say when you said what you said. It reminds me of what my mother said when she said what she said, and that hurts me so that's where I'm at with this, and it's not all right with me for today.' This should help to avoid a lot of communication problems.

  Judith Stone

  Mother, Hurt, Communication

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• Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Communication, Two, Problem

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• Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.

  Ivan Chermayeff

  Communication, Common Sense, Design

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• Most of the time when there's a communication problem, it's because the message being received is not the message you want. It's not that they don't know what they need to do, how we need to act as a team, whatever. If you don't like the message, then you go say there's a communication problem.

  Mike D'Antoni

  Team, Communication, Needs

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• Removed from its more restrictive sense, masturbation has become an expression for everything that has proved, for lack of human contact, to be void of meaning. We have communication problems, suffer from egocentrism and narcissism, are frustrated by information glut and loss of environment; we stagnate despite the rising GNP.

  Gunter Grass

  Communication, Loss, Expression

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