Ninety-nine percent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings which develop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.
—Unknown
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
—Jim Rohn (1930–2009) American Entrepreneur, Author, Motivational Speaker
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the
blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
—John C. Maxwell (b.1947) American Christian Professional Speaker, Author, Clergyman
There cannot be a greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
—John Locke (1632–1704) English Philosopher, Physician
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another—until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
—Richard Nixon (1913–94) American Head of State, Lawyer
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.
—John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist
It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
—Menander (c.343–c.291 BCE) Greek Comic Dramatist, Poet
Get in touch with the way the other person feels. Feelings are 55% body language, 38% tone and 7% words.
—Unknown
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
—Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant
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
Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
The most important thing you wear is the expression on your face
—Unknown
The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world
—Laurence J. Peter (1919–90) Canadian-born American Educator, Author
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
—Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (1832–98) British Anglican Author, Mathematician, Clergyman, Photographer, Logician
Well done is better than well said.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
One kind word can warm three winter months.
—Japanese Proverb
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, and wants it down.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
—Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) American Head of State
It’s not what you say but the way you say it.
—French Proverb
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.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American First Lady, Diplomat, Humanitarian
A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea’s and common ideals.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899–1977) American Educator
No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
Think much, speak little, and write less.
—Italian Proverb
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person’s mind.
—Rebecca West (1892–1983) English Author, Journalist, Literary Critic
Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind.
—Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) British Children’s Books Writer, Short story, Novelist, Poet, Journalist
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.
—Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
—Edward R. Murrow (1908–65) American Journalist, Radio Personality
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–81) Russian Novelist, Essayist, Writer