Communication Quotes

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.

~ Phyllis Theroux

No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another

~ Robert Barr

We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!

~ Taylor Mali

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

~ Cory Doctorow

Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.

~ Thomas S. Monson

I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it, we’ve forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it.

~ Rasmenia Massoud

You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.

~ Richard Feynman

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.

~ André Gide

Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say.

~ Kelli Jae Baeli

CommunicationIs a work of artSome are normally born with itSome may need a chart

~ A. Saleh

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

~ Stephen King

I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.

~ Thomas Mann

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.

~ John Green

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

~ Earl Warren

To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from What information do I need to convey? to What questions do I want my audience to ask?

~ Chip Heath

Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing quadriplegic. But my communication system disqualifies repartee: the keenest rapier grows dull and falls flat when it takes several minutes to thrust it home. By the time you strike, even you no longer understand what had seemed so witty before you started to dictate it, letter by letter. So the rule is to avoid impulsive sallies. It deprives conversation of its sparkle, all those gems you bat back and forth like a ball-and I count this forced lack of humor one of the great drawbacks of my condition.

~ Jean-Dominique Bauby

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

~ Clay Shirky

He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken.

~ Margaret Craven

At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.

~ Jodi Thomas

The medium obscured the message.

~ Christopher Moore

Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.

~ Haruki Murakami

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.

~ Paul Tournier

The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.

~ Chip Heath

What the dead had no speech for, when living,They can tell you, being dead: the communicationOf the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

~ T.s. Eliot

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web” of soil fungi that connects vegetation in an intimate network that allows the sharing of an enormous amount of information and goods.

~ Tim Flannery

The essence of communication is intention.

~ Werner Erhard

If I already intuitively get what you're trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that what sounds like common sense often isn't.... It's your job, as a communicator, to expose the parts of your message that are uncommon sense.(p.72)

~ Chip Heath

When one comes from the bottom they know how to deal with people on the bottom.When one educates themself to communicate they learn how to deal with a multitude of types of people.Life experience, and communication is at the core of people relations.

~ Therone Shellman

People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.

~ Chip Heath

Do you understand what I'm saying?Pardon? I just wanna hear you talking.

~ Toba Beta

Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition.

~ Graham Greene

Keep to the 'I-statements' and discuss your feelings, she lectured herself. I think, I feel. Don't be accusatory. Don't tell him that he is an insecure prick who should back off before you deck him. Instead, say, 'I feel you are acting like an insecure prick who should back off before I deck you.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum) communication, for stability of thought or dependability of behaviour to be successful.

~ Timothy Leary

It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.

~ Nicholas Boothman

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

~ Edward Abbey

In the event of a communication breakdown, decide whether you will dwell in the negative or rise above the angst and turmoil in a firm, positive manner and encourage all parties to listen and be heard.

~ Lorii Myers

I have something to tell you.How, you have something to tell me?You have understood me exactly.Well, I am listening.Listening? Then, you wish me to tell you?Yes, that is it. I am listening, and therefore I wish you to tell me.Shall I tell you now?No.

~ Steven Brust

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

~ Clay Shirky

Try saying this: 'What's true for me today is that I have angry feelings concerning what I heard you say when you said what you said. It reminds me of what my mother said when she said what she said, and that hurts me so that's where I'm at with this, and it's not all right with me for today.' This should help to avoid a lot of communication problems.

~ Judith Stone