Quotes About Communication

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd.

Never seek to tell thy loveLove that never told can be;For the gentle wind does moveSilently, invisibly.I told my love, I told my love,I told her all my heart;Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears—Ah, she doth depart.Soon as she was gone from meA traveler came bySilently, invisibly—Oh, was no deny.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

The ablest diplomat will never boast of understanding a man, but only his intentions.

I love to use these phrases - 'with the greatest respect', 'in all modest', 'I humbly submit' - which in fact always imply the complete opposite.

Rule 1: Be Consistent The first form of reinforcement is consistency of message. Every policy, procedure, and list of priorities sends a message, but if you aren't careful, your messages will be conflicting ones.

transitions will need to make sense to people, for otherwise people will resist them and make it far harder for the organization to grow as it must.

But remember: in your communications you need to speak to wherever people are now, not to where you want them to go, and they need your help, not in getting to the destination you want them ultimately to reach, but in taking the next step in the transition they find themselves in because of your big change.

They already know. We announced it." Okay, you told them, but it didn't sink in. Threatening information is absorbed remarkably slowly. Say it again. And find different ways to say it and different media (large meetings, one-on-ones, email, a story on the company website, Tweets) in which to say it.

One of the most important leadership roles during times of change is that of putting into words what it is time to leave behind. Because talking about making a break with the past can upset its defenders, some leaders shy away from articulating just what it is time to say good-bye to. But in their unwillingness to say what it is time to let go of, they are jeopardizing the very change that they believe they are leading.

Communications help to keep people feeling included in and connected to the organization. Many companies have used online newsletters and other social media outlets as a way of maintaining contact with, and showing concern for, employees in the neutral zone. Communicating in real time can give employees new information, dispel rumors, and answer questions.

The advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other's actual, physical presence.

What do we know but that we face one another in this place?

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Grant himself.14 "Hereafter," he resolved, "I intend to be careful not to give them any news worth publishing."15

Fifthly, As to learning their languages, the same means would be found necessary here as in trade between different nations. In some cases interpreters might be obtained, who might be employed for a time; and where these were not to be found, the missionaries must have patience, and mingle with the people, till they have learned so much of their language as to be able to communicate their ideas to them in it.

Careful with fire" is good advice we know."Careful with words" is ten times doubly so.

What common language to unravel?

A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.

We sit and talk, quietly, with long lapses of silence and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes which has no speech

I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little universe. It exists separately. Any poem that has any worth expresses the whole life of the poet. It gives a view of what the poet is.

An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.