Communication Quotes - Page 4

Technology is great...when it works.

The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.

Gregory C. Carlson

When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.

Ships passing in broad daylight.

Haruki Murakami

If you criticize others’ ideas, they will almost never use yours no matter how good they are.

When you are standing in the middle of a storm you have two choices: Pray to God that it goes away. Or, start praying to God that he gives you the wisdom to figure out why you're standing in the middle of a storm.

Shannon L. Alder

Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.

True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.

We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn’t it be easier to just call them conversations? That’s really what they are.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

Great communicators exemplify the power that building relationships, creating respect and achieving results can have.

In every one of your relationships, you are on a continuum between intimacy and separation. You stand on a slide that tilts you toward either intimacy or separateness. Exactly where you stand at any given moment is the result of your decisions, your feelings, how you handle situations, and the way you and the other person communicate.

A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.

I try asking him some more questions, but it's like talking to voice mail.

Michael Montoure

The phone collapsed distances, just as the radio did, and, like the radio, it relied on the miracle of imagination: one had to concentrate deeply, plunge headlong into it.

Daniel Alarcón

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

John Stuart Mill

Mobile is the digital gateway for the real world.

When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me

Men? They are simple creatures. Is there something wrong with your man? Feed him, and take him to your bed. Et Voila! All problems, they disappear. But if something is wrong with the woman? Je suis désolé. Women need to talk.– André Chevalier

Nikki Sex

It is lack of communication that leads to unhappy marriage.

Lailah Gifty Akita

She never opened her mail in the middle of the day. Sometimes she forgot about it for a week or more until people rang to complain. Nor did she check her answering machine messages. In fact, it had only been in the last year that she had finally bought an answering machine, and she steadfastly refused to have a mobile, to the incredulity of all those around her, who didn’t believe that people could actually function without one. But Frieda wanted to be able to escape from incessant communications and demands. She didn’t want to be at anyone’s beck and call, and she liked cutting herself off from the urgent inanities of the world. When she was on her own, she liked to be truly alone. Out of contact and adrift.

I love and enjoy writing.Writing is a form of daily communication.It a communication to higher divine power.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.

How you feel at the time affects how you receive and react to communication from others. You have to put on your objective eyes and ears in order to be consistently fair. - Charmainsim

Charmaine Smith Ladd

The peloton was Facebook on wheels-and during this period, information was flying.

All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their schedules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair.

Haruki Murakami

Rather than communicating blame communicate your standards for proper future treatment.

The communication block between men and

Richelle E. Goodrich

You don't have to explain something you haven't said.

Calvin Coolidge

Be a believer in true love. Seek deep communication with others and with yourself.

Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.

Haruki Murakami

Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.

...no matter how advanced the system, no matter how precise, unless we have the will to communicate, there's no connection. And even supposing the will is there, there are times like now when we don't know the other party's number. Or even if we know the number, we misdial.

Haruki Murakami

It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them.

If you can't communicate, then you don't have a relationship!

B. Dave Walters

The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.

Nationalist (forces around the world) could now more readily communicate and share their grievances, viewing themselves as similar groups, engaged in a common struggle for greater autonomy against control exerted from London or Paris.

Charles Emmerson

During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.

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

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Those with whom we communicate we think better than they are; those with whom we don’t, worse.

Dennis Vickers Lost Words

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.

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

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.

Horses don't speak, but they communicate through body language. If you look very closely, you'll find out your horse has been trying to talk to you every day.

Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum

A person who speaks as if he knows everything soon drives away his listeners. The Universe communicates itself to us in many ways, and sometimes, it is through the words of others. If we act the know-it-all, others may refrain from talking to us, and we may fail to get the message they could have given us.

Wu Wei

Successful couples learn the secret of fighting for their relationship rather than against one another.

I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.

The bottom line with men is: they feel best about themselves when they are solving problems. Therefore, they spend most of their time doing what they are best at while they attempt to ignore the things which cause them to feel deficient.

Now we have so many methods of communication: Land phone, Fax, Pager, Mobile phone, Texting, E mail, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...and the list keeps growing.......But Communication itself has not improved!

Ankala V Subbarao

The turning point for effective communication is actually hearing what is being said, rather than hearing what you want to hear instead.

Dannye Williamsen

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