Communication Quotes

The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

All the fun is in how you say a thing.

We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

A business tip, you never know who's having "pillow talk" with one another. Watch what u say, who u say it to, & WHO u talk about.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

I really didn't say everything I said.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

Words are the voice of the heart.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

The most eloquent seems to stutter.

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

The only healthy communication style is assertive communication.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there?

Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.

To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.

As you interact with others, remember this: anytime a person's response is larger than the issue at hand, the response is almost always about something else.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

I realized that there were times when we talked not because we needed to communicate anything important, but simply because we each drew comfort from the other's voice.

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.