Communication Quotes - Page 3

• When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Cute

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

  Washington Irving

  Funny, Humor, Use

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• No communication takes place until the other person feels heard

  Garrison Wynn

  Heard, Feels, Persons

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• It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

  Democritus

  Inspirational, Talking, Greed

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• The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

  J. B. Priestley

  Mean, Talking, Communicate

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Powerful, Reading, Health

  Speech, 14 Feb. 1923, in The Times 15 Feb. 1923

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• Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

  Edmund Muskie

  Speaking Spanish, Silence, Ever After

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• Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Life, Strength, Sympathy

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• Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

  W. H. Auden

  Life Is, Human Life, Humans

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• Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

  Rollo May

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.149

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• Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

  Nancy Duarte

  Powerful, Mean, Framed

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• It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

  "Stay Sought-After by Connecting Better in Conversation" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2014.

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

  Epictetus

  Kindness, Compassion, Listening To Others

  "The Golden Sayings of Epictetus" by Epictetus, translated by Hastings Crossley, Vol. II, Part 2, The Harvard Classics. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909.

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• Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

  Mark Twain

  Data, Garbage, Project Management

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• In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

  William Bernbach

  Apathy, Familiarity

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• First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Jogging, Speech

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.115

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• Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

  Homer

  Wind, Literature, Empty

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• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Looks

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

  Mary Martin

  World, Dependent

  Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin (1987). “Kenneth and Mary Martin: 11 September-31 October 1987, Annely Juda Fine Art”

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• Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Wisdom, Saying Nothing

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• It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Skills Training, Political

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.76, St. Martin's Press

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