Quotes About Communication

Any instrument whatever Would be out of tune that sought To combine and blend together The true feelings of the heart With the false words speech expresses.

hay cosas que cuesta más el decirlas que el pasarlas.

Mal haya ocasión, mal haya, 155 sin espadas y con lenguas, que son las peores armas, pues una herida mejor se cura que una palabra!

Simón manejaba bien. Me fijé porque Vicky dice que mira cómo maneja un tipo y sabe cómo coge.

Y yo sentí lo de otras veces: que entrar a un pueblo en medio de la oscuridad era como estrecharle la mano a una persona sin poder verle la cara.

She seemed to like best my daughter, Pegeen's, paintings, thought when I made the observation that the people in Pegeen's paintings, strangely enough, never seem to be engaged in any conversation with each other, all going their own ways, Mrs. Luce replied, 'Maybe they have nothing to say.

75 percent of long-term job success depends on people skills, while only 25 percent on technical knowledge.

While hard skills refer to the technical ability and the factual knowledge needed to do the job, soft skills allow you to more effectively use your technical abilities and knowledge. Soft skills encompass personal, social, communication, and self-management behaviors.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

big things are best said, are almost always said, in small words.

it is harder to decide what you want to say than it is to figure out how to say it.

a speech about everything is a speech about nothing.

you can't say everything, the fact that you have to winnow your thoughts down to the essentials, means that you can get to the heart of the matter quickly.

You must be able to say the sentences you write. And so they cannot be long and serpentine things that curl around clauses, caress subclauses, encompass extended metaphor, stop briefly for a whimsical digression and culminate, ultimately, in a long and rhythmic peroration that signals to your audience that you would not take it unkindly if they, at just about this moment, would interrupt you with vigorous and sustained applause.

It is usually and paradoxically true that the more important the message, the less time required to say it.

NO SPEECH SHOULD LAST MORE THAN TWENTY MINUTES

Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em—tell 'em—then tell 'em what you told 'em.

Every speech has a job to do, and no matter who you are, pope, president, poet or pipe layer, if you're giving a speech you have to understand what its job is and work to make sure it's done.

People don't care how much you know unless they know how much you care.

When you are thinking about what you want to say, it is often helpful to define it down, in your own mind, to a sentence or two.

Always reduce it down. This keeps it from having a false bigness in your mind, and allows you to get your hands around it. Another way to get a handle on what you want to say is to ask: What does this speech have to do? Every speech has a job, a reason for being.

They weren't trying to self-consciously fashion a phrase that would grab the listener. They were simply trying to capture in words the essence of the thought they wished to communicate.

write for listeners as opposed to readers.

The words and phrases you use must not only be "hearable" by the audience, they must be