Quotes About Communication

One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

Tamar noticed that she had never met a person she felt so comfortable being silent with.

From the minute I saw you with the match in your hand I thought I could tell you anything on my mind. You'd be my model, but for words.

Journalisms' once Holy Mantra of "who, what, where, when and, sometimes how," has been thoroughly eradicated by a ravenous creature of 24/7 photo-ops and sound bites.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

People will accept your idea more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

It is ironic that a business in which the serving of clients depends so heavily on interpersonal psychology should be peopled with those who believe in the exclusive power of technical mastery. And

Send meeting materials in advance

Reconfirm scheduled events before they happen. Announce changes to scheduled or committed dates as soon as they change. Intimacy

Make sure meetings have clear goals, not just agendas, and ensure the goals are met. 4.

Guggenbühl-Craig, A. (1977) Marriage: Dead or Alive. Dallas: Spring Publications.

2 A fool takes no pleasure in trying to understand; he only wants to express his own opinion.

Empirical studies show that New Zealanders are the most widely traveled people on the planet. The computer and the Internet have made a major difference. Insularity, distance, and isolation may have been important in an earlier period of New Zealand's history, but not today. The rapid progress of communications has wrought a revolution in the spatial condition of New Zealand, and yet its culture remains very distinctive. This fact suggests that distance itself is not the key.

This new dialect of England's ruling class differed markedly from the speech ways of American colonists, to whom it seemed contrived and pretentious.

If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.

He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.

the ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporter's career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished.

The telephone was a sign of being rushed.

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.

The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.

The difference between a topflight creative man and the hack is this ability to express powerful meanings indirectly

he sensed that his own reticence would make it easier to restrain others.

They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.