Communication Quotes

Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me,” he would say. “Johnson didn’t enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn’t think they had a sense of humor.

~ Hubert H. Humphrey

If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.

~ David Halberstam

(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story)

~ David Halberstam

Always speak first to the toughest person in the room.

~ Jess Walter

Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you.

~ Rick Perlstein

Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.

~ David Halberstam

Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don't know why we are doing what we are doing.

~ Michael White

If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they're not going to like you. They don't want to think. They want to be right, unrivaled or entertained.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.

~ Bill Bryson

It's far more important why is being said, than what.

~ Aleksandra Ninkovic

Bridge miscommunications by talking to parents, hearing their stories, and learning how they’ve shaped yours.

~ Jason L. Ma

Think about it: send SLASH receive. Email is the frenzied killer of proper communication.

~ Fennel Hudson

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

~ Dean Koontz

That one,” Ferox said, pointing at Johann with a claw. “I can see he’s communicated like that before and I think I can speak to his mind. Let me see.”“After a moment, Johann broke from the line and approached the dragon.“You did ask me to come closer, didn’t you?” he asked.“Yes, I can speak to this one. He can be my rider.

~ Tom Larcombe

I was always amazed at Cambridge how quickly people appeared to take offence at everything I said, but now I see plainly that it was not my words they hated - it was this fairy face. The dark alchemy of this face turns all my gentle human emotions into fierce fairy vices. Inside I am all despair, but this face shows only fairy scorn. My remorse becomes fairy fury and my pensiveness is turned to fairy cunning.

~ Susanna Clarke

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.

~ David Brooks

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

~ Peter Heather

(LBJ) had what a journalist calls “a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate

~ Robert A. Caro

Reagan is described as delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.

~ H.w. Brands

I have come to recognize that being trustworthy does not demand that I be rigidly consistent but that I be dependably real...Can I be expressive enough as a person that what I am will be communicated unambiguously?

~ Carl Rogers

In an age of sophistic over-complexity, simplicity can be useful.

~ William Krystol

The telephone was a sign of being rushed.

~ David Halberstam

The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.

~ David Halberstam

he knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.

~ David Halberstam

Communication with God should not be a one-way traffic.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I sometimes think that writing is like driving a sheep down the road. If there's any gate open to the left or the right the reader will most certainly go into it.

~ C.s. Lewis

Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.

~ Auliq Ice

When the weeks have built up with frustration and immense stress and one of your co-workers, a manager or an employee triggers irritation or angers you, knowing how to respond in a mindful way can pay huge dividends. Knowing how to not take other people’s emotional baggage personally and intuitively sensing when to bring up concerns and when not to is an expression of emotional intelligence. This is all possible if we are being truly mindful.

~ Christopher Dines

Prayerful life, deeper communication with God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Communication is like a pressure relief valve for your body. When a little pressure gets cooked up inside and needs to be released, you can gently turn the nozzle and release it slowly and gracefully until you feel better, by way of a productive conversation. But if you choose to ignore the warning signals and leave that pressure inside, it's going to grow and inevitably explode and make a mess, by way of an overreaction and possibly an argument.

~ L.k. Elliott

Quality speaks by itself. Rightly communicated it creates Joy. Like an Infant needs no words to express to her mother. Any success of communication enhances beauty of both, which too needs no words to endorse.

~ Priyavrat Thareja

The only difference between people who say they cannot perceive interdimensionally and people who consciously communicate interdimensionally is intent and practice. Most people access interdimensional information unconsciously. When they experience conscious contact with a non-human energy, they tend to pass it off as a curiosity or as intuition, or they cancel out the experience as too weird to deal with.

~ Atala Dorothy Toy

The concert we give is winning. And if all the people in our organization whose instrument is scouting of player development or major league scouting or player knowledge, all play well, we're going to have the most beautiful symphony of success. And I think we have.

~ John Schuerholz

I'm watching you, big boy, my eyes say, but his are closed so it's an optical monologue.

~ Mat Johnson

If you have a room which you do not want certain people to get into, put a lock on it for which they do not have the key. But there is no point in talking to them about it, unless of course you want them to admire the room from outside! The honorable thing to do is put a lock on the door which will be noticed only by those who can open it, not by the rest.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get through most of his days on stock answers to stock questions, he thought. Once he catches onto the game, he can manage with an assortment of grunts. This would not be so if people listened to each other, but they don't. They know that no one is going to say anything moving and important to them at that very moment. Anything important will be announced in the newspapers and reprinted for those who missed it. No one really wants to know how his neighbor is feeling, but he asks him anyway, because it is polite, and because he knows that his neighbor certainly will not tell him how he feels. What this woman and I say to each other is not important. It is the simple making of sounds that pleases us.

~ Peter S. Beagle

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

~ A.p.j. Abdul Kalam

He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart.

~ Harvey Mansfield

�Communication and a clear mutual understanding between two or more people builds the best route to success in any venture. I don’t expect…* immediate action, * instant perfection, * total comprehension* complete implementation, or * flawless execution. I do expect the best communication and honest effort to create the best plans for the best results while being able to stay on the same page as much as possible. If that concept doesn’t work for you, then you won’t be working with me.

~ Loren Weisman

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin