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"Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively."
- Allen, Norman

"Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
- Priestley, J. B.

"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."
- Robbins, Anthony

"Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link."
- Weil, Simone

"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight."
- Rosten, Leo

"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."
- Duffecy, James

"Power in America today is control of the means of communication."
- White, Theodore

"Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God."
- Unknown, Source

"Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints."
- Thoreau, Henry David

"Endless meetings, sloppy communications and red tape steal the entrepreneur's time."
- Hayes, James L.

"Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors."
- Bernstein, Leonard

"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
- Colby, Frank Moore

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
- Eliot, T. S.

"The art of communication is the language of leadership."
- Humes, James

"Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial."
- Kuhn, Thomas S.

"I wish people that have trouble communicating would just shut up!"
- Lehrer, Tom

"It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions."
- Menander of Athens

"Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows."
- Milton, John

"Communication is everyone's panacea for everything."
- Peters, Thomas J.

"Extremists think communication means agreeing with them."
- Rosten, Leo

"Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person."
- Unknown, Source

"The careful application of terror is also a form of communication."
- Unknown, Source

"The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self."
- White, Elwyn Brooks

"Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict."
- Parslow, Eric

"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."
- Proust, Marcel

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."
- Yeats, William Butler

"Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clich?s."
- Ionesco, Eugene

"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication"
- Gerber, Michael E.

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."
- Drucker, Peter F.

"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
- Amiel, Henri Frederic

"Listening well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well."
- Marshall, John

"Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths."
- Eliot, George

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."
- Rohn, Jim

"In the last analysis, what we ARE communicates far more eloquently than anything we SAY."
- Unknown, Source

"Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions."
- Brecht, Bertolt

"Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life."
- Piece, John A.

"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."
- Robbins, Anthony

"If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions."
- Smalley, Gary

"I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up."
- Lehrer, Tom

"The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual."
- Warren, Earl

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."
- Greer, Germaine

"If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication."
- Rosen, Richard D.

"Ninety-nine percent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings which develop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning."
- Unknown, Source

"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."
- Bonaparte, Napoleon

"Don't hide your strategy under a bushel. Communicate it throughout your company. It's better today to disclose too much that too little."
- Ross, Joel E.

"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."
- Dickens, Charles

"This "telephone" has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
- Unknown, Source

"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."
- Montesquieu, Charles De

"People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually."
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

"Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off."
- Allison, Mary Ann

"Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting."
- Schaeffer, Francis

"We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries."
- Truman, Harry S

"Use non-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S = Smile O = Open Posture F = Forward Lean T = Touch E = Eye Contact N = Nod."
- Unknown, Source

"If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us."
- Schaeffer, Francis

"Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers."
- Brown, Les

"All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words."
- Rohn, Jim

"What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don't forget that feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication."
- Unknown, Source

"Every waking moments we talk to ourselves about the things we experience. Our self-talk, the thoughts we communicate to ourselves, in turn control the way we feel and act."
- Lembo, John

"The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher."
- Wilde, Oscar

"The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells -- and he smelled real nice."
- Bullock, Sandra

"Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it."
- Hesse, Hermann

"And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."
- Eliot, T. S.

"As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth."
- Bayley, Stephen

"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."
- Hutchins, Robert M.

"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people."
- Rohn, Jim

"Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us."
- Stowell, Joseph

"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."
- Tracy, Brian

"There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit."
- Wolfe, Thomas

"Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so."
- Auden, W. H.

"Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable."
- Taylor, Claude

"There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to."
- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

"The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general."
- Woolf, Virginia

"Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions."
- Breton, Andre

"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
- Miller, Henry