Quotes About Communication

Always listen to what people need rather than what they are thinking about us.

Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away.

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.

Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture.

Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.

If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.