Communication Quotes

Communication is not a two way street. It is a bridge. Either you have one or you build one. It's about connecting, not correcting.

~ Farshad Asl

Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.

~ Amitav Ghosh

In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages. And it is just this transition from tongue to hand that has permitted humans to regain the ability-lost, according to Josephus, since Eden-to communicate with the animals.

~ Carl Sagan

Illusion of transparency: We always know what we mean by our words, and so we expect others to know it too. Reading our own writing, the intended interpretation falls easily into place, guided by our knowledge of what we really meant. It’s hard to empathize with someone who must interpret blindly, guided only by the words.Be not too quick to blame those who misunderstand your perfectly clear sentences, spoken or written. Chances are, your words are more ambiguous than you think.

~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

Don’t believe on, “143 in written,” Because words contribute only 7% in communication!

~ Dr Rafiq Dar

An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.

~ Chip Heath

We don't communicate anymore. We just talk.

~ Donny Miller

Plants can feel pressure and emotion. When something is said or done with intention, a plant can respond. So every day we tell our tree that it is beautiful, it will get more and more beautiful. I hope that tree knew how beautiful I thought it was.

~ Kate Mcgahan

That was messages without meaning: telepathy without brains.

~ Terry Pratchett

Two things I've learned: 1) you simply cannot change someone's mind on certain issues and 2) some issues are so important you cannot stop trying to.

~ J.s.b. Morse

The English Language is a form of communication! Words aren't only bombs and bullets - no, they're little gifts, containing meanings. What is true in love, is equally true at law

~ Phillip Roth

More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, our culture has been carved up into radically distinct, unbridgeable, and antagonistic entities that no longer speak the same language and cannot communicate. This is the divide between a literate, marginalized minority and those who have been consumed by an illiterate mass culture.

~ Chris Hedges

Reality took forever — the underwater way people walked and sent their voices wobbling through the air, how printed words lay inert like bugsplat, all manifesting the basic DUH of the physical plane. By the time he decided to go anywhere he wondered why he wasn't there already. As soon as he sent an email he felt he should already have the reply. And learning any fact, he was annoyed not to have known it already, because whenever anything happened, the conversation around it had already trended and backlashed and been reexamined and swallowed and shat and reswallowed and reshat in a thousand places online, until all thinking felt redundant. We needed brain-to-brain; only then would we catch up to real time. Right now everything progressed so slowly that by the time we arrived at the future it was the present again.

~ Tony Tulathimutte

A postcard and I'm pining for New England. . .

~ Amy Ballard

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

~ Rollo May

Effective communication requires active listening skills.

~ Farshad Asl

People cannot escape the looming specter of a deathwatch and the imposing emptiness that comes with the termination of their existence. People resist going silently into the night. We seek to howl at the moon and make known our search for a diagrammatic overture that voices our unquantifiable existence. Terrified of squandering our existence, we each seek to break out from our muteness and strike an accord with our brothers and sisters whom share our inherent desire to reach a global consilience.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.

~ E.b. White

One of the benchmarks of great communicators is their ability to listen not just to what's being said, but to what's not being said as well. They listen between the lines.

~ Laurie Buchanan

People who are adept in healthy self-expression exercise front-end consideration before speaking.

~ Laurie Buchanan

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

~ Fred Rogers

Communication must be HOT: honest, open, and two-way.

~ Dan Oswald

Ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything. 1) Does this need to be said 2) “Does this need to be said by me? 3) Does this need to be said by me now?

~ Craig Ferguson

Listen with your eyes as well as your ears.

~ Graham Speechley

. . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Love is a loud communication between two and a mannequin of silence for others

~ Akansh Malik

Listen with an open mind, gather all the incoming information, both verbal and non-verbal and be careful not to ignore things you don’t wish to hear. Don’t make assumptions or jump to conclusions. The punchline usually comes at the end!

~ Graham Speechley

The most powerful channel of communicationis still, The Heart !

~ Wordions

Sometimes there are not the right words for my thoughts. Speech feels like it's not a natural way to communicate. This is when typing the words makes my thoughts come out easier.

~ Tina J. Richardson

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

~ John Dewey

I don't have to look at your eyes to listen that's whatmy ears are for.

~ Tina J. Richardson

I like the way Twitter makes one be more concise.It looks like someone is saying sometthing wise

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

The biggest barrier in communication is that tendency of listening to reply and not to understand.

~ Wilson M. Mukama

...for she soars with the wildest hyperbole when not tagging after the most pedestrian dictum.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Conversations sometimes are so hard to follow.People are so confusing with the wrong facialexpressions for their words.

~ Tina J. Richardson

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.

~ Peter Drucker

If words are power then silence is superpower.

~ Rajesh Walecha

Sometimes the words that are left unspoken are the ones that most needed to be said.

~ Vi Keeland

An argument that is the loudest and gets the last word is not always the strongest. Know when to leave your argument on the table. If it’s a strong argument

~ Suleika Jaouad

Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore.

~ A.e. Samaan