2. The single biggest problem in communication
is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
3. Electric communication will never be a
substitute for the face of someone who with
their soul encourages another person to be
brave and true.
Charles Dickens
4. Take advantage of every opportunity to
practice your communication skills so that
when important occasions arise, you will have
the gift, the style, the sharpness, the
clarity, and the emotions to affect other
people.
Jim Rohn
6. To effectively communicate, we must realize
that we are all different in the way we
perceive the world and use this understanding
as a guide to our communication with others.
Tony Robbins
7. Communication is a skill that you can learn.
It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're
willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve
the quality of every part of your life.
Brian Tracy
8. A powerful idea communicates some of its
strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel Proust
9. Good communication is just as stimulating as
black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
10. There are some people who have the quality
of richness and joy in them and they
communicate it to everything they touch. It is
first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality
of the spirit.
Tom Wolfe
11. Mass communication, radio, and especially
television, have attempted, not without
success, to annihilate every possibility of
solitude and reflection.
Eugenio Montale
12. There's all these ways to instantly
communicate - cars, computers, telephone
and transportation - and even with all that, it's
so hard to find people and have an honest
communication with them.
Jason Schwartzman
13. It is not enough to show people how to live
better: there is a mandate for any group with
enormous powers of communication to show
people how to be better.
Marya Mannes
14. Communication is a continual balancing
act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy
and independence. To survive in the world, we
have to act in concert with others, but to
survive as ourselves, rather than simply as
cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
Deborah Tannen
15. The five essential entrepreneurial skills for
success:
Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, I
nnovation and Communication.
Harold S. Geneen
16. The art of effective listening is essential to
clear communication, and clear
communication is necessary to management
success.
James Cash Penney
17. In my deepest, darkest moments, what really
got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my
prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was
'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that
intimate connection and communication with
my creator will always get me through
because I know my support, my help, is just a
prayer away.
Lyanla Vanzant
18. Intelligence, knowledge or experience are
important and might get you a job, but strong
communication skills are what will get you
promoted.
Mireille Guiliano
19. To listen well is as powerful a means of
communication and influence as to talk well.
John Marshall
20. It's about communication. It's about honesty.
It's about treating people in the organization
as deserving to know the facts. You don't try
to give them half the story. You don't try to
hide the story. You treat them as - as true
equals, and you communicate and you
communicate and communicate.
Lou Gerstner
21. It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married
for four years and I see this movie as a
cautionary tale about people who've gone
deeply out of communication.
Mark Ruffalo
22. Communication is the key, and it's one thing I
had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so
involved with the visual and technical aspects
that I would forget about the actors.
Steve Buscemi
23. It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in
the presence of another person can avoid
being a communication of one's own view of
the nature of one's relationship with that
person and how it can fail to influence that
person.
Paul Watzlawick
24. Music is the greatest communication in the
world. Even if people don't understand the
language that you're singing in, they still know
good music when they hear it.
Lou Rawls
25. The communication is in the work and words
are no substitute for this.
Mary Martin
26. Communication is very important. And the
arts do that, whether it's film or theater.
Anne Archer
28. Humor is the affectionate communication of
insight.
Leo Rosten
29. I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk.
Writing was always a go to form of
communication.
Frank Ocean
30. To listen well is as powerful a means of
communication and influence as to talk well.
John Marshall
31. Music is the social act of communication
among people, a gesture of friendship, the
strongest there is.
Malcolm Arnold
32. The filmmaking process is a very personal one
to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of
communication. It's not as though its a study
of fear or any of that stuff.
David Cronenberg