Communication Quotes

Great Leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, self-reflection, education, training, and experience

~ Tony Buon

Oh.” It was one those ohs that came packed with layers of meaning — none of which merely meant oh.

~ Nicki Elson

Make it so obvious even a computer couldn't be confused.

~ Jeff Jarvis

When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions; you should just listen to him, just observe what his way is. We put very little emphasis on right and wrong or good and bad. We just see things as they are with him, and accept them. This is how we communicate with each other. Usually when you listen to some statement, you hear it as a kind of echo of yourself. You are actually listening to your own opinion. If it agrees with your opinion you may accept it, but if it does not, you will reject it or you may not even really hear it.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. And while I occasionally step over the line and into the world of the melodramatic, it is what I must do in order to communicate clearly and effectively. In order to make my point understood without question.

~ Garth Stein

He is hard, frozen ice cream and I am a weak spoon. What I've learned is this: You don't get much ice cream for all the hard work you put in, and the spoon ends up bent.

~ Karen Harrington

A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits it not open to things as they are.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

An ancient sage held that in different ages, humans held the senses in different ratios, according to the media by which they communicated and expressed themselves. Hence before writing, the ear was the royal sense. After writing, the eye.

~ Karl Schroeder

Women tend to communicate early and often about a problem. Men are more likely to view communication as a tool, and when they see it as the wrong tool for the job, they believe it should be stored neatly in the toolbox.

~ Shawn T. Smith

Understanding what is being said is only a fraction of the task of communicating. Taking in signals from the entire context is critical.

~ Joanie Connell

Contradictions, in any communication, are the first stepping stones of mistrust

~ Paul Babicki

We have to talk more. I need you to know what we need to talk about. In fact, don’t decide what is and isn’t important to share with me, it all is—from the mundane to the shocking. If something upsets you? Tell me. Make me a part of your life in such a deep way that I don’t feel separate from it. I don’t ever want to feel like you’re keeping things from me again, even if it’s unintentional.

~ Kat Bastion

Because, of course, it wouldn't do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight, and he felt he ought to reply in kind.

~ Joe Hill

So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are is the most important thing to make yourself happy, and to make others happy... So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do; and we should be faithful, subjectively and objectively, to ourselves, and especially to our feelings... it is better to express how you feel without any particular attachment or intention.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

You can't solve problems until you understand the other side. –Jeffrey Manber

~ Ron Garan

When you draw a line in the sand, be careful it is not low tide.

~ Dixie Waters

If you don't know the question, you are not ready for the answer.

~ Vivian Amis

The communication with God is very important, because the communication is one of our greatest needs, and God is the most important one we need.

~ Marieta Maglas

We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbors. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Body language speaks much more succinctly and honestly than mere spoken words.

~ Dixie Waters

There’s a much different message received, when the signs written in the flesh were not in your hand writing.

~ Dixie Waters

When Internet parlance finds its way into our accepted vocabulary, it becomes a cliché.

~ Paul Babicki

Perhaps we now need to engineer scarcity in our communications, in our interactions, and in the things we consume. Otherwise our lives become like a Morse code transmission that's lacking breaks - a swarm of noise blanketing the valuable data beneath.

~ Michael Harris

When we say something, our subjective intention or situation is always involved. So there is no perfect word; some distortion is always present in a statement.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

We emphasize straightforwardness. You should be true to your feelings, and to your mind, expressing yourself without any reservations. This helps the listener to understand more easily.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.

~ Björk

silence can sometimes save you. everything doesn’t warrant words.

~ Alexandra Elle

Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.

~ C.s. Lewis

I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.

~ Pat Conroy

Teach me to speak the language of men.

~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

A letter is the most basic—yet the most flexible—mode of correspondence, regardless of its subject matter.

~ Scribendi

Becoming an effective letter writer means analyzing each situation individually and choosing the form of correspondence accordingly.

~ Scribendi

I hate how it’s so much easier to be open and straightforward to a computer screen than to an actual person.

~ Daria Snadowsky

Developing your blog is a balancing act between appeasing current readers and reaching out to new ones.

~ Scribendi

If only we were angels, with transparent bodies and transparent thoughts...

~ John Durham Peters

Do you know what every instructor in the world wants from you? He or she really, really wants you to do two things: Demonstrate that you have understood the course material and write intelligently about your subject.

~ Scribendi

I’m a screwed-up person who no longerknows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter.

~ Matthew Quick

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

~ George Orwell

Every art communicates because it expresses. It enables us to share vividly and deeply in meanings… For communication is not announcing things… Communication is the process of creating participation, of making common what had been isolated and singular… the conveyance of meaning gives body and definiteness to the experience of the one who utters as well as to that of those who listen.

~ John Dewey