Communication Quotes · Page 189

When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

— Billy Graham

“And how did this misfortune occur?" inquired the latter, resuming the interrupted conversation.”

— Alexandre Dumas

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

— Barbara Tuchman

I don't do albums for album sales. I just do it as a conversation piece and a business card.

— Statik Selektah

The most important ingredient of Sunday lunch is the conversation. Without that, it's dead and gone.

— John Torode

Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy.

— Laura Schlessinger

Always think before you speak because you never know who may be listening!

— Mschurchgirl

“Even if she realized that they didn’t want her overhearing their conversation, she didn’t seem to care at all.”

— Christa Faust

What I like most about cigars is simply sitting and talking with other men… Some of the best conversations I’ve ever had…

— James Belushi

For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure…

— Plato

Songs like 'So May We Start' and 'We Love Each Other So Much' aren't song-songs; they're more like rhythmic speaking, not in…

— Ron Mael

People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.

— Martin Luther

Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be…

— Etgar Keret

When the civil rights are denying by the authorities, in a country.The people will be under the slavery , from the slavery…

— Sumesh Nair

“It is the individuals inside the organization who listen to, connect with and deliver service to stakeholders and it is individual stakeholders…

— Nicholas Ind

“Earlier fundamental work of Whitehead, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Whorf, etc., as well as my own attempt to use this earlier thinking as…

— Gregory Bateson

I think the best projects understand that they don't need to invent a new currency. They don't need to use the block…

— Gavin Andresen

“...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat…

— Gillian Flynn

Of course, art in and of itself gives me some feeling of elation or power and is in some way curative. But…

— Sarah Morris

When there is a certain subject matter where I want to get involved, where I think I could add to the conversation,…

— Molly Qerim

In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no…

— Elliott Abrams

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk…

— Patricia Ireland

“Rooke had no idea whether the natives had a word for treachery. His conversations with Tagaran had never traveled in that direction.…

— Kate Greenway

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

— Confucius

The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

— Jennifer Stone

We are all sinners. We are called to a conversion of heart

— Pope Francis

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

— Karen Morley

“I could deny myself the pleasure of talking, but not to others the pleasure of listening.”

— Oscar Wilde

I think it's always in order to engage in constructive dialogue, even when you may not get any results.

— Martin Luther King III

I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

— Jimenez Lai

It's so hard to have an intelligent conversation with someone when they only speak douchebag.

— Anonymous

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

— Wislawa Szymborska

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any person lies in action.

— Pindar

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

— Eminem

I am attempting to understand Telugu and then give my dialogues. But language is not a barrier for me.

— Sana Khan

I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

— Skitch Henderson

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

— Gerald R. Ford

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

— William Shakespeare