Communication Quotes · Page 128

Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

— Richard Thompson

Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’

— Isaac Asimov

I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

— Margaret Thatcher

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

— Claes Oldenburg

If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!

— Laozi

Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)

— Kate Spade

If it wasn't for the weather, no one would know how to start off a conversation.

— Laura S

“Well-determined centers of revery are means of communication between men who dream as surely as well-defined concepts are means of communications between…

— Gaston Bachelard

I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use…

— Evan Mandery

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in…

— Annie Dillard

When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's…

— Daniel Kehlmann

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don't think we necessarily need…

— Florence Pugh

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a…

— Christopher Ricks

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or…

— Anonymous

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thinking about free speech brought me to media regulation, as Americans access so much of their political and cultural speech through mass…

— Marvin Ammori

I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date…

— Nikki Giovanni

There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and…

— Nancy Eimers

I was in Christian broadcasting back in the 1970s. I was director of communications for James Robinson, and I really thought Christian…

— Mike Huckabee

I have my way of doing things, because I am that way, I try to raise my voice to motivate team-mates and…

— Jorginho

It's not speech per se that allows democracies to function, but the ability to agree - eventually, at least some of the…

— Zeynep Tufekci

Whether it has been supporting Corby's new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals,…

— Louise Mensch

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

— Cory Doctorow

“Listen to others very carefully. Shut your inner noise and focus on verbal and non verbal cues.”

— Abhishek Ratna

Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.

— Massimo Vignelli

I don't want to communicate anything other than love

— Jeremy Limn

You can't believe how pro-gay and pro-freedom-of-speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left.

— Penn Jillette

Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

— Louise Bernikow

Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.

— Alex Gibney

Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Teach those only willing to listen and listen to those only willing to teach”

— Justin Southwick

The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.

— Anna Akhmatova

As long as people are listening that's all that matters.

— Guy Garvey

If you listen, a person's silence will help you to understand in ways that words simply cannot.

— Michael Loud

As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.

— Prince Philip

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

— Andre Maurois

“Listen with your heart, not your brain. the heart only knows TRUTH!”

— Sherri Bridges Fox

“Listening gets you out of your self centered camp.   Listening is kindness.”

— Tai Sheridan