Quotes About Communication

The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication.

An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.

The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.

War is failure of diplomacy.

The core failure of Team Obama is not a failure to communicate, but a failure to comprehend.

I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can't communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.

Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing an effective job communicating that.

The systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion.

Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

You learn how to keep your secret better when your secret gets into the mind of a man with a slippery tongue.

It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.

Christianity is not a message which has to be believed, but an experience of faith that becomes a message.

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.

If we spoke less and sang songs of faith more, the world would be more Heavenly.