Communication Quotes

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  • Communication is the sister of leadership-John Adair
  • Great speakers are not born, they’re trained-Dale Carnegie
  • “In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly” – Mark Sanborn
  • “Words are the voice of the heart” – Confucius
  • “When you stop communicating, you become poor”― Meir Ezra
  • “Say a little and say it well” – Irish proverb
  • “If you have nothing to say, say nothing”-Mark Twain
  • “The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony”-Morihei Ueshiba
  • “Give me the gift of a listening heart”-Solomon
  • “All communication must lead to change”-Aristotle
  • Art is the shortest way from man to man-André Malraux
  • Great communication begins with connection -Oprah
  • A word to the wise is infuriating-Hunter S Thompson
  • “Self-consciousness kills communication” ― Rick Steves
  • “If you can talk about it, why paint it?” – Francis Bacon
  • “Communication works for those who work at it”-John Powell
  • “We, as human beings, learn through sharing and communicating” – Hugo Reynolds
  • “Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating” ― Charlie Kaufman
  • “Every act of communication is a miracle of translation” ― Ken Liu
  • The first problem of communication is getting people’s attention-Chip Heath
  • It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak and another to hear-Henry David Thoreau
  • Headlines are icons, not literature-Marshall McLuhan
  • “Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication”-Mike Krzyzewski
  • “Communication is the key for any global business”-Anita Roddick
  • “If you wish to converse with me, define your terms”-Voltaire
  • “Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger”-Chinese proverb
  • “Good words are worth much and cost little” – George Herbert
  • “Communication is the first pillar of love”― Alan Maicon
  • “A lack of communication leaves fear and doubt” –Kellan Lutz
  • We always speak well when we manage to be understood-Moliere
  • When we learn to speak, we learn to translate –Octavio Paz
  • Communication is the real work of leadership-Nitin Nohria
  • We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say-Zeno Of Citium
  • “Lack of communication will destroy a relationship” – Sayam Asjad
  • Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague-Vincent Van Gogh
  • If you have a message, call western union-Sam Goldwyn
  • “A different language is a different vision of life”-Federico Fellini
  • “No one can whistle a symphony It takes a whole orchestra to play it”-HE Luccock
  • “The quality of your communication determines the size of your result” – Meir Ezra
  • “Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much” – John Wayne
  • Seek first to understand, then to be understood-Stephen Covey
  • First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak-Epictetus
  • Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow-Lawrence Clark Powell
  • “When people talk, listen completely Most people never listen”-Ernest Hemingway
  • “Conversation is king Content is just something to talk about”-Cory Doctorow
  • “The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice” ― Peggy O’Mara
  • “We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share” ― Rania Al-Abdullah
  • The less people know, the more they yell-Seth Godin
  • I’m the Ernest Hemingway of characters-Donald Trump
  • “Good communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity”-Nat Turner
  • “Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence”-Jorge Luis Borges
  • Be sincere; be brief; be seated-Franklin D Roosevelt
  • When we change the way we communicate, we change society-Clay Shirky
  • “If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I’d spend it on PR!”-Bill Gates
  • “Eye contact is one of the primal ways of communicating” ― Clive Harman
  • Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can’t hear what you’re saying-Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe-Gustave Flaubert
  • When an actor has money, he doesn’t send letters but telegrams-Anton Chekhov
  • “Make sure to communicate your idea quickly and keep it straight to the point” – Paul Bailey
  • “The essence of communication is intention”-Werner Erhard
  • “There is only one rule for being a good talker – learn to listen”-Christopher Morley
  • Communication is the solvent of all problems and is the foundation for personal development-Peter Shepherd
  • To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man-Marcel Marceau
  • It is the encounters with people that make life worth living-Emma Thompson
  • The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause-Mark Twain
  • “When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective” – Stephen R Covey
  • “The only healthy communication style is assertive communication”-Jim Rohn
  • I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university-Albert Einstein
  • “The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said”-Peter Drucker
  • “We never listen when we are eager to speak – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  • “The art of communication is the language of leadership”-James Humes