A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive shortwave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899–1977) American Educational Philosopher
We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) American Head of State, Lawyer
If you cry “Forward” you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don’t you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?
—Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian Short-Story Writer
The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
—Hayley Atwell (b.1982) British-American Actress
Communication is everyone’s panacea for everything.
—Tom Peters (b.1942) American Management Consultant, Author
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
—Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (1832–98) British Author, Mathematician, Clergyman, Logician
Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn’t about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.
—John Kotter (b.1947) American Management Consultant
The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.
—Konstantin Stanislavski (1863–1938) Russian Actor, Theater Personality
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
Nobody ever listened himself out of a job.
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American Head of State, Lawyer
Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.
—Unknown
It’s not what you say but the way you say it.
—French Proverb
The greatest truths are the simplest.
—Hosea Ballou (1771–1852) American Theologian
When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the language of the first.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
—Epictetus (55–135) Ancient Greek Philosopher
There cannot be a greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
—John Locke (1632–1704) English Philosopher, Physician
The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.
—Russell Baker (1925–2019) American Journalist, Humorist, Television Host
Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
—Richard Whately (1787–1863) English Philosopher, Theologian
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
When we clearly understand that there is no superior sex or superior race, we will have opened the door of communication and laid the foundation for building winning relationships with all people in this global world of ours.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.
—Unknown
Do you want a sign that you’re asleep? Here it is: you’re suffering. Suffering is a sign that you’re out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there’s falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering.
—Anthony de Mello (1931–87) Indian-born American Theologian
Already we viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
—J. B. Priestley (1894–1984) English Novelist, Playwright, Critic
Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.
—Thomas S. Kuhn (1922–96) American Philosopher, Science-Historian
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
—John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
—Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author
The problem with communication is the illusion that it has been achieved.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
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