Quotation Explorer - 'Communication'

Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest. - Sheryl Sandberg
If your child is constantly interrupting or doing other things to get your attention, he is not getting enough communication of the right kind. Just the fact that you are in the house with him all day does not mean that you are necessarily devoting any time to com- munication of his choice. - Ruth Minshull
Although leaders and followers are closely linked, it is the leader who often initiates the relationship, creates the communication linkages, and carries the burden for maintaining the relationship. - Peter Northouse
The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place. - Pope John Paul II
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. - Marcel Proust
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said. - Peter Drucker
Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool. - Shannon L. Alder
Just as evil communication and company corrupts good manners, good communication and company can correct bad manners - Chiolu Hope N.
Old marketing was dictation... new marketing is communication. Change from Convince & Convert to Converse & Convert! - Ted Rubin
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets —no, they're little gifts, containing meanings! - Philip Roth
If asked for an opinion we’ll say what we think. And by what we think I mean the answer that comes to our mind first, seems most logical and requires the least amount of effort to articulate, while getting us in the least amount of trouble. Really that’s what our communication boils down to. - Aaron Blaylock
The Gnostic’s passionate adoration of Sophia was known as philosophia the love of Sophia a mystical communication with divine feminine wisdom, having little to do with the strictly intellectual, most often masculine, pursuit currently labeled philosophy. - Zeena Schreck
God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook. - Shannon L. Alder
Patience creates a platform for deeply intimate communication. This platform tests our ability to listen, our willingness to be kind, and our strength against loss. This is the platform in which the most authentic types beauty can be exchanged. - Ilse Hildebrandt
It is very important to keep the communication lines flowing so that you develop mutual admiration and respect. - Kristen J. Duca
Through powerful and heartfelt communication with the universe, you can create a new world everyday-you can be proud of. - Pooja Ruprell
Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities. - Shannon L. Alder
Prayer elevates and transforms you. Nourish your soul using this powerful communication tool every day, and you will never be the same again. - Pooja Ruprell
Much of human communication is a monologue delivered to anyone who will listen. A real dialogue allows many to express and has the chance of leading to more discovery.• - Dennis Cogswell
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats. - Timothy Garton Ash
The most spectacular moment of my daily life is connection with a stranger by communication. - Lailah Gifty Akita
One of great arts of communication is the skill of listening to people - Sunday Adelaja
A relationship is about commitment, making quality time to spend with each other, keeping lines of communication open, being honest and loyal and respecting each others differences. When one person stops doing this, the future of the relationship is in jeopardy, - Karon Waddell
A world without radio is a deaf world. A world without television is a blind world. A world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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
Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.
Communication is the real work of leadership. - Nitin Nohria
Conversation often becomes mere verbal performance and oral horseplay rather than fair-minded communication. (Juicy rumours ) - Erik Pevernagie
Communication land lines are going to be around for a long time, the internet runs on them, as do the wireless cell phone towers. - Steven Magee
Never mistake legibility for communication. - David Carson
Peace is a flawed logic. They believe that communication and understanding will create peace. However, just because you know and understand the nature of something or someone, does not mean that you will come to terms. - Lionel Suggs
My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the most effective form of communication. - Annabelle R. Charbit
Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said.‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur. - Gabriel García Márquez
Smile is the shortest and fastest communication between strangers. - Saru Singhal
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. - Joseph Priestley
Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. ... Thus, it is the communication process which is at the core of the vitality and integrity of science. - Philip Abelson
For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said. - Virginia Woolf
Inspiring leadership communication is not about great oratory or great charisma; rather it is about getting others to believe in themselves and believe in your cause, and then achieve more than they thought was possible. - Kevin Murray
Is there a communication breakdown in your marriage because of the "crowd noise" i.e.. too many people in your life you are taking advice from? Who is in your ear that isn’t a part of the team on and off the field? That’s the noise you drown out. - Shon Hyneman Love And Football How to play on the same team with your spouse
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. - Rollo May
Real communication is not possible. That is why my message, your perception and your expression shall never be the same. - Harshit Walia
Love is not getting high on fantasies of romance, the perfect lover, absolute happiness and sexual ecstasy. Love is based on a two way communication and respect, and that only exists between equals. - Anselma Dell'Olio
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply. - Stephen R. Covey
It is distressing how often we repeat ourselves. When we ask questions, we know the answers already. We've grown accustomed to horizontal communication, flatlining banalities and droning insignificance. - Louisa Hall
Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful. - John Piper
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. - Frank Moore Colby
Writing begins as a solitary obsession and ends up as communication. - Marty Rubin
A world without radio is a deaf world.A world without television is a blind world. A a world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Communication, communication. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Effective communication requires active listening skills. - Farshad Asl
Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they are left with only an illusion of connection. This is the intimacy they so ardently seek but with these coping skills find so elusive. - David W. Earle
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions -- knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ideas -- become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use."~ - Louis D. Brandeis
The law of circulation is the power of communication. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Quality speaks by itself. Rightly communicated it creates Joy. Like an Infant needs no words to express to her mother. Any success of communication enhances beauty of both, which too needs no words to endorse. - Priyavrat Thareja
Beneath the uniformity that unites us in communication there is a chaotic personal diversity of connections, and, for each of us, the connections continue to evolve. No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives. - Willard Van Orman Quine
We can taste what's in our mouths, touch what's within our reach, smell within hundreds of metres and hear within tens of miles. But it's only through our vision that we are in communication with the sun and stars. - Gavin Francis
True interactivity is not about clicking on icons or downloading files, it's about encouraging communication. - Edwin Schlossberg
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication / connection is the door. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Nothing beats effective communication because it clears all doubts, misunderstandings, accusations, rumour, insecurities, gossip, hearsay, etc. - Uzoma Nnadi
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
Peace can only be achieved by a contrite spirit, open communication and tolerance. - Shannon L. Alder
Prayer is communication. You talk, God listens. You listen when God talks. - Omoakhuana Anthonia
Contradictions, in any communication, are the first stepping stones of mistrust - Paul Babicki
The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you. Let your communication with him be controlled by your committment. - Israelmore Ayivor
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. - Peter Drucker
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. - Stephen R. Covey
There is no communication in this world except between equals. - Ken Burns
The essence of communication is intention. - Werner Erhard
No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did. - Eugenio Montale
a lack of communication is preferable to a profusion of miscommunications. - Sagey Malik
Effective Communication is a way to success - Jaspal Singh Malik
The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society—and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding. - William H. Whyte
Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of illusion and reality, trees and forests can offer no help. - R. N. Prasher
If Patience is the Key of Success then Communication is the master key of it - Haris Siddique
Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea. - Ayn Rand
When religious people take the stance that they don’t owe anyone that is hurting closure or answers then God is not winning. Conflict continues because of lack of communication, fear and indifference. - Shannon L. Alder
Beauty should be the goal of your communication. Learn to speak with godly wisdom. - Elizabeth George
One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is. - Sunday Adelaja
Communication is an art and a meaningful conversation is a masterpiece. - Jasz Gill
Communication by touch is not for every old dutch. - Volodymyr Knyr
in a relationship that is successful, communication has to be totally open and honest, without judgement or anger. and before you end a relationship that is very important to you, you have to be able to say to yourself that you seeked every avenue to make it work. - Anonymous
Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together. - Shannon L. Alder
I love and enjoy writing.Writing is a form of daily communication.It a communication to higher divine power. - Lailah Gifty Akita
In the non-material scenario, both temple or total quality gets raised, deploying communication as mortar, culture as reinforcement, and commitment as concrete. - Priyavrat Thareja
The biggest barrier in communication is that tendency of listening to reply and not to understand. - Wilson M. Mukama
Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it. - John Burroughs
communication is a bridge to two or more people to understand... - Jinnul Jr.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. - Virgina Satir
Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships. - Clifford Stoll
You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it. - Shannon L. Alder
We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business. - Kip Tindell
Communication is the mortar that holds humanity together; it’s the very currency of our society. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD
Book publishers should change the communication from best sellers to the best impacts.What matters is the impact not the sold copies. - kamil Toume
When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script. - Shannon L. Alder
I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise. - Misha Glouberman
Technology offers great communication tools. Social media helps make connections. And, heart to heart conversations take place face to face and not over email, Whatsup, Facebook or Twitter. Don't be deceived. - Ana Ortega
Typography is what communication looks like.There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented. - James Felici
Lack of communication can drive a spike between two people wider than any physical distance. - Mark W. Boyer
Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world. - Sara Sheridan
Sales can never be done with 'good' skills or 'good' communication or 'thorough' product knowledge.. It can only be done with PASSION and U gotta be a people loving person, to be alive in sales... - honeya
Real communication occurs...when we listen with understanding. What does this mean? It means to see the expressed idea and attitude from the other person's point of view, to sense how it feels to him, to achieve his frame of reference in regard to the thing he is talking about. - Carl Rogers
Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be intolerably screaming, if it means absence of communication, deficiency in friendship and emotional deficit. A gap of silence) - Erik Pevernagie
A full-throttled deployment of the practices of strategic communication would kill candor and leave truth bereft to fend for herself in the backstabbing night of political bogeys. - Nick Bostrom
Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Without trust and respect, only fear and distrust of others' motives and intentions are left. Without trust and respect between parties, it is nearly impossible to find good solutions to effective communication. - Deborah A. Beasley
Communication with God should not be a one-way traffic. - Sunday Adelaja
Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader. - Georges Bataille
When one comes from the bottom they know how to deal with people on the bottom.When one educates themself to communicate they learn how to deal with a multitude of types of people.Life experience, and communication is at the core of people relations. - Therone Shellman
It is lack of communication that leads to unhappy marriage. - Lailah Gifty Akita
As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly - Jo Ann Davis
All communication is a sign of failure. If everybody is pleased with the situation, then there is no need for communication. - Peter Gärdenfors
Listen to your body. The quality of your communication matters. - Natalie Geld
To Tengo, sexual desire was fundamentally an extension of a means of communication. And so, to look for sexual desire in a place where there was no possibility of communication seemed inappropriate to him. - Haruki Murakami
As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36) - Jon Stewart
A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost. - Shannon L. Alder
The turning point for effective communication is actually hearing what is being said, rather than hearing what you want to hear instead. - Dannye Williamsen
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. - Earl Warren
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
[on Rouge] This is a film about communication that disappears. We have better and better tools and less and less communication with each other. We only exchange information. - Krzysztof Kieślowski
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void. - Barnett Newman
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
Communication must be HOT: honest, open, and two-way. - Dan Oswald
Communication...it is a difficult optimisation. Structurally, it gets founded over words, organised around thoughts. Words are difficult to come through, successfully, amid the thought process. The thought process in right manifestation gives rise to communication. - Priyavrat Thareja
- If no one understands anything in the same way, what use is communication? - The best way to recycle empty soup cans is to tie a string to them and talk to yourself - from up to a mile away. - Stefan D
When communication in unclear speculations takes precedence. - Shantelee R. Brown
The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
When finally substantiated by scientific means, such a view will allow an individual to see his place in the world with greater clarity-- how he came from the world and how he may contribute to his fellows while he enjoys for a brief time the privilege of consciousness and communication. - Gerald Edelman
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. - Walt Disney Company
Be cohesive in your dealings. Trust built on and from mutual support, facilitating communication and encouraging coordination can be rewarding. - Ogwo David Emenike
He (Kris Medlin) has a communication with a force in pitching that most of us can’t talk to. It’s an awareness; it’s a sixth sense. When he steps in and stares in to that catcher, that little man on his shoulder’s going to take over and tell him what to do. And he’s done it well. - Don Sutton
Don't let lack of sexual communication get in the way of your pleasure any longer. Dare to ask the questions that will make sex so much more enjoyable, boost passion, and facilitate a deeper connection and intimacy in your relationship. - Miya Yamanouchi
Netiquette: The social code of network communication. Internet code of conduct based on the Golden Rule. Ethical philosophy of common rules. - David Chiles
Self-consciousness kills communication. - Rick Steves
If there really is a definable 6th sense, it would be the natural connection and the ability of communication between man and animal - Justin Southwick
The world admires wealth and velocity—these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, the post, steamboats, and all possible modes of communication are the means by which the world overeducates itself and freezes itself in mediocrity. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
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