Communication Quotes · Page 80

“I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules”

— Samuel Johnson

“Fight as if you are right, listen as if you are wrong.”

— Robert I. Sutton

Listen it's Facebook that has the like button, not me.

— Anonymous

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

— Leigh Hunt

I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.

— Eavan Boland

If you listen to your people they'll tell you what's important.

— Johnny Hunt

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

— Stephen Leacock

Art is a dialogue. I'm throwing rocks across a chasm and hoping people catch them on the other side.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you…

— Al Franken

To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away…

— Thomas Hartwell Horne

In my 20s and early 30s, I was drawn to scripts that had memorable dialogues and some kind of lingering message.

— Hyun Bin

“Every other basic right, such as the Formation of Government and the Right to Freedom of Organization, are simply practical extensions of…

— Stieg Larsson

One of the best things in life is having the ability to have a conversation for hours and not get bored.

— Anonymous

Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your…

— Rumi

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy…

— William Shakespeare

My art is a disciplined high dive - high soar, simultaneous & polychromous, an exaltation of the verbal-visual... my dialogue.

— Robert Indiana

“In a naive accounting, speaking seems to cost almost nothing—just the calories we expend flexing our vocal cords and firing our neurons…

— Kevin Simler

Our teammates can learn from each other through communication. There are conversations that we have to be able to have in our…

— Dawn Staley

Russia, at the start of the 21st century, at least in its larger cities, very much resembled the United States of the…

— Masha Gessen

“The Reed Flute's Song Listen to the story told by the reed, of being separated. "Since I was cut from the reedbed,…

— Anonymous

Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your…

— Cathy Moriarty

I think, you know, we always tell candidates, show, don't tell, what you're all about. I think Hillary Clinton's speech was an…

— Anita Dunn

Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change…

— Dave Champion

“Quikc to listen. Slow to speak. Slow to get angry.”

— Idawati Zhang

Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.

— Kobayashi Issa

People have told me that the dialogue in '100 Bullets' is very realistic. I don't agree.

— Brian Azzarello

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop.

— Henny Youngman

Your call is very important to us. Please enjoy this 50 minute clarinet solo.

— Anonymous

What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication.

— Richard Bach

“If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.”

— Oscar Wilde

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

— Tony Goldwyn

When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.

— Sam Shepard

“if there is listening through a “listener,” then we are not listening.”

— David Bohm

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

— Vincent Van Gogh

If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

— Christopher Morley

The people who ask questions decide the quality of their conversation.

— Vikrant Dutta

“Communications begin at home and resonate in how we interact with the world.”

— Dr. Hussam Atef Elkhatib