1. A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship. ~Maximilian Schell
2. A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. ~Truman Capote
3. A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise. ~Edward Young
4. A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember. ~John Mason Brown
5. A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. ~Andre Maurois
6. A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. ~Mark Twain
7. A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
8. A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins
9. 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
10. 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
11. Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. ~Robert C. Gallagher
12. As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction. ~Stan Getz
13. Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend. ~Alphonsus Liguori
14. Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. ~Louis D. Brandeis
15. 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
16. Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person. ~Unknown
17. Communication is the real work of leadership. ~Nitin Nohria
18. Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. ~Rollo May
19. Communication works for those who work at it. ~John Powell
20. Communication works for those who work at it. ~John Powell
21. Communication--the human connection--is the key to personal and career success. ~ Paul J. Meyer
22. Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ~Oscar Wilde
23. Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. ~Edward Gibbon
24. Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance. ~Ordway Tead
25. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Winston Churchill
26. Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. ~Amos Bronson Alcott
27. 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
28. 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
29. Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together. ~Scilla Elworthy
30. Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below. ~Luisa Morgantini
31. Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. ~Robert Benchley
32. 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
33. Eschew obfuscation. ~Unknown
34. Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. ~Virginia Satir
35. First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. ~Epictetus
36. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ~T.S. Eliot
37. Give me the gift of a listening heart. ~King Solomon
38. 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
39. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
40. He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful. ~Sydney Smith
41. He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. ~Lao Tzu
42. Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear. ~Thomas C. Haliburton
43. I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own actions, its own communities, its own economies, before starting to integrate in large regional or global supranational organizations. ~David Korten
44. I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. ~John Locke
45. I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another ~Homer
46. I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. ~Rupert Brooke
47. I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. ~George Bernard Shaw
48. Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. ~Emily Post
49. If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it. ~Tom Lehrer
50. If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view – as well as your own. ~Henry Ford
51. If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
52. If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. ~Joseph Farrell
53. If you have nothing to say, say nothing. ~Mark Twain
54. If you have nothing to say, say nothing. ~Mark Twain
55. If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk. ~Wendell Berry
56. If you wish to converse with me, define your terms ~Voltaire
57. 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
58. In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. ~William Bernbach
59. In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. ~Stephen R. Covey
60. It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all ~Democritus
61. It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting. ~Joseph Priestley
62. It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
63. It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. ~Erma Bombeck
64. Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ~Jimi Hendrix
65. Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. ~Dr. Joyce Brothers
66. Make a distinction between the person and their opinions—opinions are like clothes, a matter of taste and fashion that can be changed at will. Don't mistake them for the essential core. ~Mark Somner
67. Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. ~Robert Greeleaf
68. Many of the conflicts in our lives and in the world are caused by misunderstandings. Sometimes we jump to conclusions about why others do things. Sometimes we don't understand the cultural differences of others. Poor communication makes the conflict worse. Real dialogue can often lead to understanding, helping communities to get along much better. ~Robert Alan
69. Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy. ~Bill Cosby
70. Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. ~Joseph Addison
71. Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. ~Andre Gide
72. Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ~Leonard Bernstein
73. 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
74. No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
75. Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~George Sala
76. Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood. ~Jr. Teague
77. Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. ~Walt Disney
78. One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
79. One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. ~Margaret Chase Smith
80. Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act. ~James Thurber
81. Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
82. Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. ~Emily Dickinson
83. Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
84. 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
85. 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
86. 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
87. The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world ~Dr. Laurence J. Peter
88. The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech. ~Edwin H. Friedman
89. 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
90. The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. ~Woodrow Wilson
91. The genius of communication is the ability to be both totally honest and totally kind at the same time. ~John Powell
92. The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ~Dave Barry
93. The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul. ~Konstantin Stanislavsky
94. The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. ~Joseph Priestley
95. The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. ~Rachel Naomi Remen
96. The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. ~Peter F. Drucker
97. The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. ~Stephen King
98. The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. ~Dale Carnegie
99. The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred. ~George Bernard Shaw
100. The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving differences and clashes of interests, whether between individuals or nations, is through dialogue. ~The Dalai Lama
101. The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversations is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak. ~Francois La Rochefoucauld
102. The relationship is the communication bridge between people. ~Alfred Kadushin
103. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. ~George Bernard Shaw
104. 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
105. The time to stop talking is before people stop listening. ~Unknown
106. The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use ~Washington Irving
107. The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet. ~Ann Landers
108. The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. ~Anthony Robbins
109. The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. ~Anthony Robbins
110. The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man. ~Woodrow Wilson
111. There are enough compulsive talkers; have you met any compulsive listeners? ~Unknown
112. There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. ~Dale Carnegie
113. There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions. ~Ernest Hello
114. There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. ~John Locke
115. There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something. ~John Dewey
116. There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing. ~John Dewey
117. There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions and no peace among the religions without dialogue. ~Fr. Hans Kung
118. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. ~Carl W. Buechner
119. Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. ~William Butler Yeats
120. Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. ~William Butler Yeats
121. 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
122. 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
123. To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well ~John Marshall
124. To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. ~John Marshall
125. Two monologues do not make a dialogue. ~Jeff Daly
126. 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
127. 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
128. We come to know ourselves, then, through coming to know each other. And the deeper that knowledge, the richer and more creative the world we build together. ~Danny Martin
129. We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
130. We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ~Epictetus
131. We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. ~Harry S. Truman
132. When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ~Dale Carnegie
133. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. ~Ernest Hemingway
134. 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
135. Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right. ~Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
136. Who speads, sows; Who listens, reaps. ~Argentine Proverb
137. Without mutual knowledge there can be no mutual understanding; without understanding, there can be no trust and respect; without trust, there can be no peace, only the danger of conflict. This means we have to be willing and able to familiarize ourselves with the way people of other cultures think and perceive the world around them, but without losing our own standpoint in the process. ~Roman Herzog, President of Germany
138. Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. ~Rebecca West
139. You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. ~M. Scott Peck