3,244 Quotes About Communication

It is, indeed, virtual dogma that the function of language is communication.

Argumentation doesn't breed solution, it only breeds more chaos. If you want to find solution, then observe, scrutinize and discuss. However, a discussion has to be an actual discussion to be able to solve a problem, and not a debate in disguise.

If you can say it in a paragraph, don’t write a book.

Beware the words not said... (because) the words we don’t want to say are often the most important.

Our language choices change how we use our time and energy. For every word we use to describe where we want to go, there's another word that we're walking away from.

The statement 'A picture is worth a thousand words' is worth 0.007 of a picture.

She’s good at small talk, she excels at it, but when you pair up one small talker to two deep ones, it doesn’t work.

Here he was walking across London to say to Clarissa in so many words that he loved her. Which one does never say , he thought. Partly one's lazy; partly one's shy.

I think one of the things I’ve learned as a writer...is that speech is a form of power in this world. As a writer, being able to articulate what other people may be feeling but perhaps struggle to put into words themselves, it is valued. But I also believe we—all of us—communicate in silence, in energy, in a love that extends from our hearts. And, to me, this is another form of inner power.