Communication Quotes

A thousand words blossomed to her lips and died there, because no amount of speaking could communicate the depths of how he’d affected her. Of how he’d changed her.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

I like to quote Shakespeare. But in this case, the rapper Eminem said it best: Words are a motherfucker.

~ Jillian Keenan

The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand.

~ Elena Ferrante

In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Words are only containers like a canvas holds a painting.What’s in the essence of the words you convey through the sound of your voice?

~ Andrew Neff

Lonnie's monotonous speech gives him an advantage, the same advantage foreigners have: his words are not worn out. It is like a code tapped through a wall. Sometimes he asks me straight out: do you love me? and it is possible to tap back: yes, I love you.

~ Walker Percy

Sometimes, you need to spit stuff out in words to get it better arranged in your head. I figure if you never talk about it, it just picks its own spot and lays there and festers.

~ Dan Groat

...why, when people write words do they capitalize “I”? Why not capitalize “You” too? For You are as important as I am. It’s hard for me to understand the human ways.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Thoreau and Huxley calmly state what I have spent years trying to articulate, and never found the words for doing so. To read the words of these great men is to read the highest expression of my very self which is inexpressible due to the shortcomings of my particular nature.

~ Chris Matakas

Quotes tell a story. A stringing together of a few words can leave you with an idea that changes the course of your life, and can direct you toward reaching your highest potential as a human. The story they tell is derived from the experience which inspired them, and it is our sharing that experience that allows for the quote to resonate so deeply within our being.

~ Chris Matakas

Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one.

~ Chris Matakas

... she had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she seemed, indeed, to wish to hear spoken, but, from prudence, would let her friend be the first to speak.

~ Marcel Proust

There was so much to say that we said nothing.

~ Philip Schuyler Allen

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.

~ Lily King

You prove to people that you don’t pay attention to their words when they see that you don’t remember what they tell you earlier.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us...and nothing.

~ Malcolm Bradbury

Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk sensibly.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Good communication has just a little to do with eloquence. It's character that makes it more successful. Harsh words nicely articulated are sharp enough to kill your brand!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Words alone can effect great good as well as evil. A few apt words have swept candidates into office, ended as well as started wars, paved the way for peace and carried with them both hope as well as despair. Words alone have ruined lives, but have also brought forth healing. It is well known the harm words can cause, but the good they can bring is equally impressive.

~ Steve Goodier

Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express our thoughts in words. And when the other person hears our words, something gets lost in translation again, because words mean different things to different people. A long time may mean 10 hours to one person, but 10 days to another. So when a thought is formed in my brain, and my mouth expresses it in words, and your ears hear it, and your brain processes it, your brain and my brain never truly see exactly the same thing. Communication is always just an approximation.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

Words can express true feelings, true emotions and wisdom. It is up to you to use them wisely... Choose your words carefully and express the peacefully!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session, you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It is very difficult to understand man. It is also very difficult to understand what a man does. If he is able to give an explanation, it may be easier. Even then everything can not be understood. Words have their limitation and comprehension, its limits. So if we are able to understand 25% of what is being said, even that should be deemed, as good communication skills are very good. Beyond this one should not even aspire for.

~ Acharya Mahapragya

We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for. In all talking there lies a grain of contempt. Speech, it seems, was devised only for the average medium, communicable. The speaker has already vulgarized himself by speaking.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

To say exactly what one means, even to one's own private satisfaction, is difficult. To say exactly what one means and to involve another person is harder still. Communication between you and me relies on assumptions, associations, commonalities and a kind of agreed shorthand, which no-one could precisely define but which everyone would admit exists. That is one reason why it is an effort to have a proper conversation in a foreign language. Even if I am quite fluent, even if I understand the dictionary definitions of words and phrases, I cannot rely on a shorthand with the other party, whose habit of mind is subtly different from my own. Nevertheless, all of us know of times when we have not been able to communicate in words a deep emotion and yet we know we have been understood. This can happen in the most foreign of foreign parts and it can happen in our own homes. It would seem that for most of us, most of the time, communication depends on more than words.

~ Jeanette Winterson

I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to avoid. Christmas, birthdays. Dry lips. On their best married days, their communications were entirely transactional: 'We're out of milk again.' (I'll get some today.) 'I need this ironed properly.' (I'll do that today.) 'How hard is it to buy milk?' (Silence.) 'You forgot to call the plumber.' (Sigh.) 'Goddammit, put on your coat, right now, and go out and get some goddamn milk. Now.' These messages and orders brought to you by my father, a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee.

~ Gillian Flynn

Prayer is communication. You talk, God listens. You listen when God talks.

~ Omoakhuana Anthonia

The simplest definition of prayer is communicating with God. That's it. Did you miss it? Let me say it again. Prayer is simply communicating with God. That one uncomplicated thought began to revolutionize my whole prayer life. What is communication? It's transferring a thought, feeling, emotion, or idea to another person. So prayer is giving God my thoughts, feelings, emotions, and ideas, by whatever means works. It doesn't have to be formal. It doesn't have to be long and dry. It's simply communicating.

~ Craig Groeschel

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

~ Richard Brookhiser

Every few words you speak, every little help you offer and every small advice you give mass up tiny miracles that can change someone's life forever!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The act of prayer present an opportunity to communicate and connect to the Supreme being,God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To be a great achiever, you must first discover your main purpose of existing through feasible communication mode with your maker, the source of your destiny. This brings you a conviction to work with.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Prayer is inward communication with yourself, action is outward conversation with God.

~ Steve Maraboli

When we want to awaken a thought in anyone, what are the means at our disposal? One only, to produce in him by word and sign states of sensibility and of imagination, emotion and memory in which he will discover our idea and make it his own.

~ Antonin Sertillanges

Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place, dialogue is an attempt to dance with the unknown at the risk of losing what we think we know.

~ Oli Anderson