1. A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember. ~John Mason Brown
2. A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals. ~Robert M. Hutchins
3. A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. ~Leo Rosten
4. All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite. ~Elbert Hubbard
5. Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send. ~Joseph Badaracco
6. Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person. ~Unknown
7. Communication is the real work of leadership. ~Nitin Nohria
8. Communication works for those who work at it. ~John Powell
9. Communication--the human connection--is the key to personal and career success. ~ Paul J. Meyer
10. Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand. ~Sue Patton Thoele
11. Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. ~Charles Dickens
12. Eschew obfuscation. ~Unknown
13. First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. ~Epictetus
14. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ~T.S. Eliot
15. Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way. ~John Kotter
16. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
17. He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. ~Lao Tzu
18. I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another ~Homer
19. If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it. ~Tom Lehrer
20. If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
21. If you have nothing to say, say nothing. ~Mark Twain
22. If you wish to converse with me, define your terms ~Voltaire
23. 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
24. In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. ~William Bernbach
25. In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. ~Stephen R. Covey
26. It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all ~Democritus
27. It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting. ~Joseph Priestley
28. It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. ~Erma Bombeck
29. Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy. ~Bill Cosby
30. Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ~Leonard Bernstein
31. My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying. ~Margaret Chase Smith
32. Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood. ~Jr. Teague
33. Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. ~Walt Disney
34. One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
35. Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
36. Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. ~Emily Dickinson
37. 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
38. Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning ~Chris Cavanaugh
39. Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ~Heinrich Heine
40. The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world ~Dr. Laurence J. Peter
41. The communications of humanity obviously are trending towards that future point at which virtually all information will be spontaneously available and copyable at the individual level: beyond that, a vast transformation must occur. ~Gene Youngblood
42. The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ~Dave Barry
43. The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul. ~Konstantin Stanislavsky
44. The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. ~Joseph Priestley
45. The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. ~Stephen King
46. The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred. ~George Bernard Shaw
47. The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. ~Edward R. Murrow
48. The time to stop talking is before people stop listening. ~Unknown
49. The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use ~Washington Irving
50. The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. ~Anthony Robbins
51. There are enough compulsive talkers; have you met any compulsive listeners? ~Unknown
52. There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something. ~John Dewey
53. Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. ~William Butler Yeats
54. 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. ~Anthony Robbins
55. 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. ~Anthony Robbins
56. To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well ~John Marshall
57. Two monologues do not make a dialogue. ~Jeff Daly
58. Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. ~Simone Weil
59. We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. ~Richard M. Nixon
60. We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ~Epictetus
61. When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is. ~Michael De Saintamo
62. Who speads, sows; Who listens, reaps. ~Argentine Proverb
63. Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. ~Rebecca West