Communication Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.

Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

Words spoken cannot be recalled so think twice before you speak.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.