Communication Quotes · Page 216

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

— Penn Jillette

If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.

— Paulo Coelho

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.

— Sol Stein

“Living in a story of a limited self—to any degree—is not love.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“I read the tea leaves as if they were words left over from a conversation between two cups.”

— Anonymous

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

— Anonymous

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

— Thomas Carlyle

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

— Peter Block

When you don't have an interruption, there's a flow, so it's easier to memorize. Monologues are easier to memorize than dialogue.

— Sean Hayes

When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

— Vinny Testaverde

Realize Communication is key, don't hold on to something that bothers you and expect things to go smoothly.

— Anonymous

“The abyss and the light of the world, Time's need and the craving for eternity, Vision, event, and poetry: Was and is…

— Martin Buber

Leaders don't change their positions mid-debate. They welcome scorn from the masses because it creates the opportunity for dialogue.

— Mark Cuban

If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do?…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse…

— Terry Eagleton

When the United States cannibalize dollars from the defensive business of the NSA, securing our communications, protecting our systems, patching zero-day vulnerabilities,…

— Edward Snowden

“A grounded and responsible reading of Revelation begins with reading it first as we would read Paul’s Letters to the Galatians or…

— David A. Desilva

“On his journey home from delivering his acceptance speech in Sweden the following summer, Einstein stopped in Copenhagen to see Bohr, who…

— Walter Isaacson

Wherever you go, whether it be a college campus or the New York Times or ABC News or Venezuela or Cuba or…

— Andrew Breitbart

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving…

— Havelock Ellis

In all of its expressions, whether halting and short or flowing in beautiful, well-structured phrases, prayer is simply a conversation with God.…

— Ravi Zacharias

We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice…

— Alain de Botton

“The Cross of Christ is to be a reality to me not only once for all at my conversion, but all through…

— Francis A. Schaeffer

Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

— Jonathan Swift

The best relation is one...In which Yesterday's fight doesn't stop today's communication!!

— Tinku Razoria

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

— William Shakespeare

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

— Russell Baker

“Often in close relationships, the subject being discussed is not the subject at all.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.

— Christian Louboutin

Dad was a pure entrepreneur. The dinner conversations weren't like, 'Did the Yankees win today?'

— Tyler Winklevoss

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

— Noam Chomsky

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

— Gilbert Parker

“There is no greater path than the act of listening.”

— Bryant McGill

I could really get used to this 'talking to you all day everyday' business.

— Anonymous

Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.

— Geert Wilders

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

— Yanni

“The reward for the watching eye and listening ear is great.”

— Yann Martel

Communication is the key in a Long Distance Relationship.

— Sharlene05

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

— Zig Ziglar