Quotes About Communication

On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team.

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

In good writing, words become one with things.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.

A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

Tohru: Call a doctor, or a vet, or anybody! Oh, Mr. Postman, it's terrible! You see, they're animals! Postman: Uh, yes, they certainly are. Here's your mail.

All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation.

I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.

Good writers are visible just behind their words.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.

We're (also) looking for a good people person who is able to motivate others and get strong performances out of people.

good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.

For me really good acting is about subtext.