Communication Quotes

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

Albert Einstein

“There are always three speeches for every one you actually gave: the one you practised, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.”

Dale Carnegie

“Be sincere; be brief; be seated.”

“Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.”

Cicero

“It is not enough to know what to say, but it is necessary to know how to say it.”

“Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.”

Michel de Montaigne

“One of the reasons why so few of us are ever found to be agreeable in conversation is that most of us are thinking more about what we are going to say than about what others are saying.”

François de La Rochefoucauld

“We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.”

Bill Gates

“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.”

Ken Blanchard

“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”

Elbert Hubbard

“Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”

Kahlil Gibran

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”

Harper Lee

“The great majority of us cannot listen; we find ourselves compelled to evaluate, because listening is too dangerous.”

Carl Rogers

“The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary.”

“The body never lies.”

Martha Graham

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”

“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.”

Frank Smith

“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”

Charlemagne

“Everyone communicates, few connect.”

“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.”

Lee Iacocca

“Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.”

“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.”

“I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.”