3,244 Quotes About Communication

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.

Effective communication is the music of humanity.

There is nothing quite as destructive to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the use of language that dismisses the way Jesus talks and prays and takes up instead the rhetoric of smiling salesmanship or vicious invective.

Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.

He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

he knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.

Lyndon Johnson’s sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words but evocative, of a man with a remarkable gift for images, homey images of a vividness that infused the sentences with drama.