62 Top Communication Quotes And Sayings
Communication is the imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium.
1. The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
2. A genuine effort to understand another person goes along way in the path to communication
Anonymous
3. Communicate. Even when it’s uncomfortable or uneasy. One of the best ways to heal is simply getting everything out; and if you live bitterly, you live a lonely existence.
Anonymous
4. Communication is the fuel that keeps the fire of your relationship burning, without it your relationship goes cold.
William Paisley
5. Without Communication, there is no relationship; Without Respect, there is no Love; Without Trust, there is no reason to continue
Anonymous
6. Communication is actually so important. To be able to tell the other what's on your mind without fighting or arguing
Anonymous
7. Communication and trust are two main ingredients for a successful relationship
Anonymous
8. The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply
Anonymous
9. The art of communication is the language of leadership.
James Humes
10. Real men don't assume everything's ok with their woman, they communicate with her making 100% sure everything's ok
Anonymous
11. Communication to a relationship is like oxygen to life. Without it…it dies.
Tony Gaskins
12. Communication must be HOT. That's Honest, Open and Two-way.
Dan Oswald
13. If you just communicate you can get by. But if you skillfully communicate, you can work miracles.
Jim Rohn
14. Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato
15. Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
Robert K. Greenleaf
16. The quality of your life is the quality of your communication.
Anthony Robbins
17. Good words are worth much, and cost little.
George Herbert
18. A great relationship has great communication. That means knowing how to effectively express yourself and how to listen properly
Anonymous
19. Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
20. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply
Anonymous
21. Success is led by the power of communication
Anonymous
22. Only through communication can human life hold meaning.
Paulo Freire
23. Assumption and lack of communication are the number one relationship killers. We all perceive differently. We’ve lived different lives, we have different views. Understand that before getting angry at someone for not believing what you believe.
Anonymous
24. The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Peter F. Drucker
25. We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
26. In a relationship, when communication starts to fade, everything else follows
Anonymous
27. Consistency and communication is really everything
Anonymous
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28. I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Robert McCloskey
29. Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen Covey
30. The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
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31. The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
James Cash Penney
32. The effectiveness of communication is not defined by the communication, but by the response.
Milton Erickson
33. It's the lack of communication of the marathon that causes the problems.
Rich McFadden
34. The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise
Shannon L. Alder
35. Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of intense communication
Georages Bataille
36. One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication
Anonymous
37. In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies – the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
Aldous Huxley
38. To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.
Edward Abbey
39. Constantly Talking Isn't Necessarily Communicating.
Charlie Kaufman
40. The illusion that everything will just turn out magically without having to communicate thoughts, feelings, and needs in a relationship is an immaturity that will make true connection impossible.
Anonymous
41. Communication is the sister of leadership.
John Adair
42. Of all the institutions in their lives, only the Catholic Church has seemed aware of the fact that my mother and father are thinkers—persons aware of the experience of their lives. Other institutions—the nation’s political parties, the industries of mass entertainment and communications, the companies that employed them—have all treated my parents with condescension
Richard Rodriguez
43. 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.
Brian tracy
44. Friendship requires great communication.
Saint francis De Sales
45. What we have here is a failure to communicate
Anonymous
46. Communication is key. Two people can be in the same relationship and yet see it in two different ways
Anonymous
47. Compromise, communication and consistency are needed in all relationships, not just romantic ones
Anonymous
48. Communication is the first thing we learn as a child but as we grow older it's becomes the hardest thing to do
Anonymous
49. It is not the distance that keeps the people apart but lack of communication
Anonymous
50. Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success
Anonymous
51. Communication Works For Those Who Work At It.
John Powell
52. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
53. People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
John C. Maxwell
54. Communication is the real work of leadership.
Nitin Nohria
55. Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Jim Rohn
56. Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively
Anonymous
57. The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
Sydney J. Harris
58. Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success.
Paul J. Meyer
59. Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Rollo May
60. Don't assume your partner knows everything you expect in a relationship. A relationship should be based on communication, not assumptions
Anonymous
61. If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.
Jim Rohn
62. 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.
Anthony Robbins
#6 on communication is not anonymous. It was written by curmudgeonly New Yorker journalist A.J. Lebling. Referring to “communication” in his 1961 classic, “The Press,” he also wrote:
Communication means simply getting any idea across and has no intrinsic relation to truth. It is neutral. It can be a peddler’s tool, or the weapon of a political knave, or the medium of a new religion. “Journalism” has a reference to what happens, day by day, but “communication” can deal, just as well, with what has not happened, what the communicator wants to happen, or what he wants the dupe on the other end to think. Its general and increasing substitution, in the schoolmen’s jargon, for harmless old Journalism disturbs me….
Q—What do you do for a living?
A—I am a communicator.
Q—What do you communicate? Scarlet fever? Apprehension?