Quotes about Communication: Inspiration for Those Who Lead

Quotes about Communication

Inspiration for Those Who Lead

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“The single biggest problem in

communication is the illusion

that it has taken place.” -George Bernard Shaw

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“Of all of our inventions for mass

communication, pictures still speak the most

universally understood language.” -Walt

Disney

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“Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.”

-Louis Nizer

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“It usually takes me more than three

weeks to prepare a good impromptu

speech.” -Mark Twain

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“The most important thing in communication

is hearing what isn't said.”

-Peter Drucker

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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

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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug

used by mankind.”-Rudyard Kipling

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“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be

subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it

again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”

-Winston Churchill

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“Wise men speak because they have

something to say; Fools because they have to

say something.” -Plato

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“The two words 'information' and 'communication' are

often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving

out; communication is getting through.”

-Sydney J. Harris

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“Communication leads to community, that is,

to understanding, intimacy and mutual

valuing.” -Rollo May

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“Good words are worth much, and

cost little.”-George Herbert

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“Write to be understood, speak to

be heard, read to grow.”

-Lawrence Clark Powell@SpeechIsBeautiful.com 2015

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the

difference between lightning and

lightning bug.” -Mark Twain

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“The less peopleknow, the more

they yell.” -Seth Godin

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“The way we communicate with others

and with ourselves ultimately determines

the quality of our lives.” -Tony Robbins

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“Kind words can be short and easy to

speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

-Mother Teresa

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“Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I

don’t anymore. I realized it was killing

conversation. When you’re always

trying for a topper you aren’t really

listening. It ruins communication.”

-Groucho Marx

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“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in

conversation” -Mark Twain

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“Be sincere; be brief;

be seated.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“The spoken word belongs half to him

who speaks, and half to him who listens.”

-French Proverb

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“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is

spoken out loud.”-Hermann Hesse

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“First learn the meaning of

what you say, and then speak.”

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“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.” -Oliver Wendell

Holmes

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“The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every human being is unique

and of value.” -Unknown

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“We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.”

-Cicero

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