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You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.  

- Creighton Abrams  

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.  

- Atwell  

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.  

- Bernard M Baruch  

Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.  

- Les Brown  

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?  

- Bruce Burton  

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.  

- Dale Carnegie  

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.  

- Dale Carnegie  

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?  

- Anton Chekhov  

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.  

- Jeff Daly  

It's vital the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.  

- Princess of Wales Diana  

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.  

- Peter F Drucker  

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.  

- T S Eliot  

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.  

- Robert Frost  

To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.  

- Geibel  

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.  

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  

I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in conference, are adaptable. They quickly get the other fellow's view. They are more eager to do this than to express their own ideas. Also, they state their own point of view convincingly.  

- John Hallock  

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively, but says nothing.  

- Henry S Haskins  

The art of communication is the language of leadership.  

- James Humes  

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.  

- Robert M Hutchins  

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.  

- Washington Irving  

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.  

- Abraham Lincoln  

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.  

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh  

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.  

- John Locke  

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.  

- John Milton  

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.  

- Molière  

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.  

- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne  

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.  

- Thomas J Peters  

Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.  

- John A Piece  

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.  

- Proverb  

Of what does not concern you say nothing good or bad.  

- Italian Proverb  

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.  

- Anthony Robbins  

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.  

- Anthony Robbins  

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

- Jim Rohn  

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  

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures --in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.  

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery  

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.  

- Robert Louis Stevenson  

Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.  

- Joseph Stowell  

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.  

- Jr Freeman Teague  

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 very part of your life.  

- Brian Tracy  

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.  

- Harry S Truman  

In the last analysis, what we ARE communicates far more eloquently than anything we SAY.  

- Source Unknown  

You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.  

- Source Unknown  

What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters a b c d e ANF f? Answer. feedback. Don't forget that feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication.  

- Source Unknown  

Use non-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others. S = Smile, O = Open Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, and N = Nod.  

- Source Unknown  

Ninety-nine percent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings which develop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.  

- Source Unknown  

Get in touch with the way the other person feels. Feelings are 55% body language, 38% tone and 7% words.  

- Source Unknown  

Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.  

- Source Unknown  

The higher you go, the wider spreads the network of communication that will make or break you. It extends not only to more people below, but to new levels above. And it extends all around, to endless other departments and interests interacting with yours.  

- Donald Walton  

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.  

- Earl Warren  

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.  

- Simone Weil  

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.  

- Elwyn Brooks White  

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