Great Communication Quotes

• Friendship requires great communication.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Friendship, Communication

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• Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Communication, Opportunity

  "Technical Support Essentials: Advice to Succeed in Technical Support". Book by Andrew Sanchez, p. 79, December 30, 2009.

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• Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Wise, Teamwork

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• In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

  Stephen Covey

  Communication, Moving Forward, Character

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.18, Mango Media Inc.

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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, Communication, People

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

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• Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

  Dale Carnegie

  Marketing, Hours, Win Friends And Influence People

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• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Epictetus

  Kindness, Communication, Compassion

  "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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• 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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  A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Leadership, Character

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.50, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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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• Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

  Walt Disney

  Communication, Moving Forward, Language

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• The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca
  
  Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

  Mark Twain

  Communication, Love Is, Skills

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• The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Relationship

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  Hans Hofmann

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  1967 Search for the Real.

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• You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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

  J. B. Priestley

  Communication, Mean, Talking

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• To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Spiritual, Communication

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 08, 2015

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• Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

  Earl Wilson

  Coffee, Communication, Office

  "Fostering global discourse: it's time to embrace distance learning" by Kit Jones, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2012.

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• You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

  Lesley Gore

  Beautiful, Communication, Men

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• Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

  Mae West

  Communication, Tools, Action

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• Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

  Benjamin Banneker

  Communication, Science, Evil

  Friends' Intelligencer, Volume XI (p. 821), 1854.

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• The less people know, the more they yell.

  Seth Godin

  Communication, People, Knows

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