Quotes About Communication

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

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

Don't be afraid to speak from personal experience; in many ways, those vulnerable moments will be the key that unlocks a hardened heart.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

Being that can be understood is language.

Tears are words that need to be written.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.