Quotes About Communication

Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming on, just write the word, 'damn,' in the place of 'very.' The editor will strike out the word, 'damn,' and you will have a good sentence.

I have never seen a public man who more quickly, shrewdly, efficiently got through a pile of Sunday newspapers than Calvin Coolidge. I was interested in his skill. It revealed a sharp mind, a lively set of brains. He rose abruptly after his morning stint of reading, walked out of the smoking-room without saying a word; indeed he had passed less than a dozen syllables during the hour and a half while we sat watching him above the rims of our papers.

With pen and with pencil we're learning to say Nothing, more cleverly every day.

You're a true poet: but, my dear, If you would hold the public ear, Remember to be not too clear. Be strange, be verbally intense; Words matter ten times more than sense; In clear streams, under sunny skies, The fish you angle for won't rise; In turbid water, cloudy weather, They'll rush to you by shoals together.

While friends we were, the hot debates That rose 'twixt you and me! Now we are mere associates, And never disagree.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

God therefore useth means, not for want of power, but through the abundance of his goodness: that namely he might communicate a certain dignity of working to his Creatures also, in them might make his efficiency more perceivable.

The art of theatrical story-telling is necessarily relative to the audience to whom the story is to be told. One must assume an audience of a certain status and characteristics before one can rationally discuss the best methods of appealing to its intelligence and its sympathies.

Kinquering Congs their titles take.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

Melody had heard some of these people from the Ukraine singing. He hadn't understood one word. Yet he didn't have to know the words to understand what they were wailing about. Words didn't count when the music had a tongue. The field hands of the sloping red-hill country in Kentucky sang that same tongue.

You know more about your child than I can ever hope to know, what advice can you give me to make a better teacher for her?

when someone says he wants to be perfectly straightforward with us, we should be on the lookout for a concealed dagger.

in the course of trying to train a horse, we punish him, it should be because we want him to obey us in the future, not because we are angry about his failure to obey us in the past.

The emotions are perfectly willing to listen to the intellect as long as the intellect isn't trying to impose its views but is merely trying to help the emotions get what they want.

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

When you command, remember 'tis but speech To bid a thing be acted to your mind

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.