Communication Quotes - Page 6

• Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

  Faith Baldwin

  Talking, Silence, Sometimes

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• Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.

  Joseph Stowell

  Reality, Two, Heaven

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• Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

  Josh Billings

  Smart, Men

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• I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

  Bill Gates

  Success, People, Profound

  Keynote Address to the Creating Digital Dividends Conference, voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu. October 18, 2000.

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• Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

  Lou Rawls

  People, Singing, World

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• One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.

  Francis Joseph Sheed

  Way, Language, Boring

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• Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop.

  Henny Youngman

  Thinking, Cop, Traffic

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• Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

  Malcolm Arnold

  Inspiring, People, Gestures

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• Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

  Josh Billings

  Anger, Parenting, Insperational

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Support, Decay, Publicity

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  Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

  Lee Iacocca

  Leadership, Funny Inspirational, People

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• People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

  Yoko Ono

  Artist, People, Reactions

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• The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Thoughtful, Silence, Genius

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• It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

  Karl Popper

  Misunderstood, Way, Impossible

  Karl Popper (2005). “Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography”, p.29, Routledge

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• Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Anger, Expression, Criticism

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• Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

  John Milton

  Spiritual, Goodness, Grows

  John Milton (1758). “Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained...”, p.147

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• Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Empathy, Understanding

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.

  Rumi

  Son, Arrows, Way

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• Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Speech, Power Of Speech, Good Sense

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.363, University of Georgia Press

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• I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.

  George Sanders

  Annoyed, Language, Individual

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• If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Different, World, Language

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• Many can argue - not many converse.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inspirational, Arguing, Converses

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.75

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• Never mistake legibility for communication.

  David Carson

  Funny, Mistake, Humor

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• To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.

  Emanuel Geibel

  Gold, Coins, Matter

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• It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

  Joseph Priestley

  Squash, Use, Tone

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