Famous Quotes about Communication (73 Quotations)

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

The higher you go, the wider spreads the network of communication that will make or break you. It extends not only to more people below, but to new levels above. And it extends all around, to endless other departments and interests interacting with yours.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively, but says nothing.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

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.

To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.