top of page
.png){kind=small}
Communication Quotes
"To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality."
38
"You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception."
38
"You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?"
38
"I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."
38
"They Learn to speak... and when they were at level "AVERAGE", they started making the rules and starting to shout."
38
"A right word counts the silence, a bad word is counted by the page."
37
"There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive."
37
"Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view."
37
"All the things I've ever wanted to say suddenly I've been bold enough to say them on Social Media."
37
"The limits of your language are the limits of your world."
37
"No", she said, "I know that you don't like me.""You don't know anything."
37
"Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them."
37
"Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they are left with only an illusion of connection. This is the intimacy they so ardently seek but with these coping skills find so elusive."
37
"Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word."
37
"In a myriad of ways you tell one truth."
37
"Thanks to words we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words we have often sunk to the level of the demons."
37
"What we have here is a failure to communicate."
37
"The trusted quality and power of the believed sponsor of your words will have a big impact on the power released in and through your words. You should have sufficient sponsorship to counter the kind of words you do not want to influence your life, thoughts and mission. Contrary words and convincing voices will encounter you on the route to your destiny and they need to be countered with strong conviction and authority."
37
"If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum."
37
"In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better."
36
"You don't talk much, do you?" she blurted out."I didn't think there was a need. You seem to be holding up both our ends of the conversation admirably."
36
"Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them."
36
"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."
36
"Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar."
36
"What you post online speaks VOLUME about who you really are. POST with intention. REPOST with caution."
36
"So far, I had a solid collection of my honest opinions."
36
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
36
"Misunderstandings are a normal part of life, and the outcomes of these depend upon how we choose to react to them."
36
"Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not, the whole point of conversations was flow."
36
"Closed mouths, only lead to closed gates. Share your salvation!"
36
"People don't only speak with their mouths. They speak with their whole being. Sometimes they mean what they don't say and say what they don't mean; so listen with your whole being also. Let your whole being connect to theirs. Do not only listen to their voice, but also to their body language and their emotions. Listen with your ears and your heart."
36
"It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them."
36
"It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge."
35
"As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently."
35
"Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen."
35
"You have a very high probability of your quote and your name being distributed, posted, and shared around the world!"
35
"Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters."
35
"Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something."
35
"There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows."
35
"We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding."
35
"The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She'd been through too much, between my siters-I could not add to the weight. So instead, I did my best to balance it out, bit by bit, word by word, story by story, even if none of them were true."
35
"Consistency and accuracy instills believability."
35
"A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication."
34
"She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake."
34
"Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication."
34
"Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open."
34
"See, the thing about that word, Sharkey, the F-word, is that sometimes I make that word do too much work. I mean, I say that word as if it clearly articulates what I'm really feeling. And it doesn't. It's a shortcut."
34
"If our message reaches the kitchen tables, we are in good shape."
34
"A well paid word deceives them. And what kind of a word is a word that has a price, high or low, which is adjusted to the price of fame, and how, long ago, when it was little appreciated, was it more valuable than it is today with a big price?"
34
bottom of page