Communication Quotes

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

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.

The secret of war lies in the communications.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.

I immediately regretted that last point because I have discovered that in discussions it never helps to take a morally superior tone to one's opponent.

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.

Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.

I wish to be Prime Minister and in close and daily communication by telephone with the President of the United States. There is nothing we could not do if we were together.

If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning and come home in the evening and have nothing to say.

Maybe it's the things I say. Maybe I should think before I speak.

You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

We're all Christ and we're all Hitler. We are trying to make Christ's message contemporary. We want Christ to win. What would he have done if he had advertisements, T.V., records, films and newspapers? The miracle today is communication. So Let's use it.

Pantomime has always been the universal means of communication. It existed as the universal tool long before language was born. Pantomime serves well where languages are in the conflict of a common ignorance.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.