Communication Quotes
Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.
Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.
One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, "had made both sides see themselves as they are.
God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.
The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy
a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.
it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
To speak little is natural. Therefore a gale does not blow a whole morning nor does a downpour last a whole day.
True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.
Once you can communicate with yourself, you'll be able to communicate outwardly with more clarity. The way in is the way out.
A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.
The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.
Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.
She became at once more intimate and more exalted.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
. . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!
Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experience it, it can become one of the richest feelings they have ever had.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
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.
...if the content of your speech is not authentic, talking or texting on a device doesn't mean you're communicating with another person.
If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others.
As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.
Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams
If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.
All manners are not created equal and can conjure different interpretations based on the environment in which they are being displayed.
It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.
This culture of distraction was nothing new. Christianity was born into one.
Tweet others the way you want to be tweeted.
Time management is essential for a work-life balance.
When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.
ASK YOURSELF: Are you presenting yourself in the best of all lights, online and off, and demonstrating the dignity of good manners? Make sure of it! If not, it may come back to haunt you.
Ernest Hemingway was a champion of the common man. He once said, “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self.
Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.
