Quotes About Communication

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied

The artist...is the voice of the people.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

If the marriage needs help, the answer almost always is have more fun. Drop your list of grievances and go ride a roller coaster.

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

If you only talk to a person's head and not their heart people won't listen to you.

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot truly serve them.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

Dreams are the language of God.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.

It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.