Quotes About Communication

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

The more you know, the less you need to say.

I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.

She said that too often my tongue worked but not my head, or my head worked but not my heart.

Write visually or die!

Showing Respect Is not Slavery...and Must Be Taught

Words are all we have to communicate our thoughts, our feelings, and our dreams. We must use them wisely.

When you feel tempted to speak out of anger or frustration, think before you talk. If you're still tempted, think again.

The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.

The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.

So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street.

Children's books, even good picture books, are much richer than ordinary home or classroom conversation

When the daily number of words for each group of children is projected across four years, the four-year-old child from the professional family will have heard 45 million words, the working-class child 26 million, and the welfare child only 13 million.

The eventual strength of our vocabulary is determined not by the ten thousand common words but by how many rare words we understand.

when you find yourself shouting, know that you have just told everyone listening that you are unsure of your beliefs.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

I'll always touch you.

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech–every now and then she stops to breathe.