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Communication Quotes


"One of the greatest tools you cannot do without is the media. These various means for mass communication and those involved in them must be your partners and not your enemies, you must not be afraid of them but befriend and love them. If you are going to be significant and relevant then you are going to need someone to help broadcast your voice and channel your substance to the world."


"Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."


"He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing."


"Not every single way of saying the right thing is right."



"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions."


"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."


"People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper."


"Debate is masculine conversation is feminine."


"Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say."This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again."Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar."


"When enlightened souls come in contact with ignorant people like you, they have to speak in YOUR language, because you are not yet qualified to speak to them, you have not yet mastered the ART to commune with them. Ordinarily communication happens between two minds, communion between two beings."


"Can we be clear about who we are, what we want? Can we be fully present in our truth, and communicate that? Can we understand each other?"


"Some words are wind, ser. Some are treason."


"Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs."


"Silence, when correctly timed, can speak multitudes of words to a person, without any extra effort on your part."


"Words alone can effect great good as well as evil. A few apt words have swept candidates into office, ended as well as started wars, paved the way for peace and carried with them both hope as well as despair. Words alone have ruined lives, but have also brought forth healing. It is well known the harm words can cause, but the good they can bring is equally impressive."


"He tried to explain and to convince. He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a vacuum. There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends, the picture postcards she had seen, the novels of country squires she had read; it was this that he had to address, this immateriality which could not hear him or answer, deaf and impersonal like a wad of cotton."


"If you are not sure or you don't know something, politely ask. Asking is not a sign of being daft, but of confidence."


"Do you answer a question directly?""Hard to say. Ah, there, I've done it again."


"Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don't do that. Some day we'll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you."


"To understand and be understood is to be at peace."


"I never hear about dear Mike. I wrote Ellen Greene and asked about him and she replyed and never mentioned Mike but told me all about her roomatism. As if I cared about her roomatism."


"Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me."


"To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not."


"Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear."


"Cheapen words and they'll cheapen you."


"Social Media begins with a story - your story."


"Let us use words carefully, because words can betray and kill.['A gap of silence']"


"On this platform of peace, we can create a languageto translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other."


"A Speechmaker's Prayer: "Let each word of mine be tender and sweet, Just in case someone might make me eat it."


"I wish I didn't need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both."


"Eloquence.- We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true."


"Let us speak less and say more. ['Words flew away like birds']"


"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence."


"What you say about your situation matters a lot in life than what you do to it. It helps when you know what to say. When things are not going the way they are supposed to go, God does not keep quiet, He always say something. Do the same, change your situation with the words of your mouth."


"Rumours should be juicy and gossips must be mouth-watering, since they have to uplift and make people feel better. Tittle-tattle can have a swift ripple effect and when the ball is rolling very fast, it kick-starts a flood of moral destruction. "Schadenfreude can, then, be fully enjoyed. ['Juicy rumours']"


"Words are powerful, so use every word wisely to create a better world."


"Lend me your ears and you can borrow my mind."


"That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people desire from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them, is a fact which is perpetually demonstrated in daily life."



"Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."


"If you can't share your story, you can't sell your product."


"..."SORRY."...Just doesn't cut it anymore!"



"Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say."


"Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say."


"Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion."


"Your unwillingness to change to my view point is purely on the justifiable basis that you have your own strongly held beliefs about important life issues."


"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid."


"There should always be a deliberate crafting and packaging of the words you speak so that they produce the kind of results you desire. Enough research has been done in every religion and belief system to support the truth that words have power to create or destroy. This is the reason why all major religions say their prayers. However, your words can only be as powerful and as effective as their sponsor. The words must possess the right substance."


"YOU ARE WHAT YOU TWEET!"


"Without words meaning anything, we stop meaning anything. It's getting to the point where nobody means what they say or says what they really mean."


"Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our truest emotions using simple words!"
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