Communication Quotes

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Language cares.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

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.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

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.

If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Communication works for those who work at it.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

Writing is a communication.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.