Communicators Quotes

• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fine China, Broken, Reputation

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• Great communicators don't just hear the words. Great communicators hear the meaning behind the words

  Simon Sinek

  Behinds

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• I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot.

  Natalie Maines

  Kind

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Great communicators have an appreciation for positioning. They understand the people they're trying to reach and what they can and can't hear. They send their message in through an open door rather than trying to push it through a wall.

  John P. Kotter

  Appreciation, Wall, Doors

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• Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

  Satyajit Ray

  Communication, Mind, Cinema

  Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”

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• Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.

  Andy Stanley

  People, Needs, Figures

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• Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Art, Bridges, Ideas

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• I think the most important key to quality communication and interaction is developing an interest in the person you`re talking with. Most women know the secret to a quality conversation is to ask quality questions and have a sincere interest in hearing the answers. In fact, the best communicators very often say the least. It`s not the extrovert who dominates the conversation that a client feels most connected with, but rather the individual who shows a real and sincere interest in knowing about the life of the person they`re talking with.

  Tony Robbins

  Real, Communication, Thinking

  Interview with Dr. Joe Blaes, www.dentaleconomics.com. February 1, 2000.

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• To become a master communicator: shut your mouth & listen first.

  Rick Warren

  Firsts, Mouths, Masters

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 06, 2011

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• President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous.

  Jonathan Chait

  Party, President, Sides

  "PRUDEN: An FDR lesson Obama missed" by Wesley Pruden, www.washingtontimes.com. March 2, 2010.

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• I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

  Ronald Reagan

  Differences, Style, Used

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• Instead of putting others down, try improving yourself instead. The only person you have a right to compete with is you. In the meantime, treat others how you'd like to be treated. One trait that some of the best (communicators) share is empathy. A couple of kind words can not only make a person's day, but earn you a friend and supporter for life. For the rest of the week, whenever you see someone you want to judge negatively, pay them a compliment instead. See what happens.

  Neil Strauss

  Couple, Judging, Empathy

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• The more valuable you become [in your company], the more influence you have, the better communicator you are, you manage your time better, and you recognize people for their contributions. You also become more valuable as a spouse, parent and friend.

  Jim Rohn

  People, Parent, Influence

  Source: www.selfgrowth.com

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• I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.

  Garry Shandling

  Thinking, Bed, Trouble

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• If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.

  Emma Thompson

  Fall, Artist, Challenges

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• Great communicators leave their audiences with great clarity.

  John C. Maxwell

  Clarity, Audience

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently”, p.153, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Leaders are visionaries. They see the outcome. Leaders are communicators. They tell us what they're seeing. They hold the dream, letting us feel that it's possible. Our minds open up to what they show us could be. We dream with them. We get excited with them, drawing on all our abilities to create the future.

  Susan Collins

  Dream, Drawing, Leader

  Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.

  Robin Lakoff

  Mother, Lying, Teflon

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• The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.

  Andy Stanley

  Journey, Issues, Giving

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• Where God and man are in relationship, this must be the ideal. God must be the communicator, and man must be in the listening, obeying attitude. If men and women are not willing to assume
  this listening attitude, there will be no meeting with God in living, personal experience.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Attitude, Men, Listening

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• I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement I'm a physical actor.

  Daniel Logan

  Voice, Actors, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that actors are terrible communicators as people by and large. I think our tendency is to kind of be self-centered and tune people out and just kind of get really me-focused, so I think communication for actors is a big challenge actually.

  Rainn Wilson

  Communication, Thinking, Self

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology.

  David Berman

  Technology, Skills, Addiction

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• However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with someone who's been an actor.

  Colin Firth

  Directors, Actors, Shorthand

  "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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