Quotes About Communication

We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.

As a player, you can't express ideas and opinions as easily as when you're doing a ballgame.

In a side when you have 15 players there will always be times when there will be opinions that will be different. That is what is needed.

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

I like to do all the talking myself.  It saves time, and prevents arguments." "But

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that I sometimes don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

it would be a very good thing if people were taught how to speak. Language is the noblest instrument we have, either for the revealing or the concealing of thought; talk itself is a sort of spiritualized action; and conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. It starts in the right manner.

I like hearing myself talk.  It is one of my greatest pleasures.  I often have long conversations all by myself

My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.

I don't think that you should tell me that you love me wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly.  Hopelessly doesn't seem to make much sense, does it?

Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.

I like hearing myself talk.  It is one of my greatest pleasures.  I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

You see, it is a very dangerous thing to listen. If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person.

I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words

The pen is mightier than the paving-stone

Jemanden zu beeinflussen bedeutet, ihm eine fremde Seele zu geben.

They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

In America the president reigns for 4 years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.

Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.