3,244 Quotes About Communication

It’s better to bite your tongue than to eat your words.

Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics; laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.

A thousand words blossomed to her lips and died there, because no amount of speaking could communicate the depths of how he’d affected her. Of how he’d changed her.

A postcard and I'm pining for New England. . .

Apabila kami berkomunikasi, perbualan kami nipis perkataan, tetapi kaya dengan gerak geri, sarat dengan tanda baca, kesunyian yang hamil tanpa apa-apa kata.

Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect.

The writer does want to be published; the painter urgently hopes that someone will see the finished canvas (van Gogh was denied the satisfaction of having his work bought and appreciated during his lifetime; no wonder the pain was more than he could bear); the composer needs his music to be heard. Art is communication, and if there is no communication it is as though the work has been stillborn.

That was messages without meaning: telepathy without brains.

You think every functioning couple knows themselves and expresses what they want and hears what the other is saying perfectly? That we're not pumping everyone else full of prejudices and fantasies with no connection to reality? The only thing holding relationships together is intention. It's not a matter of fact or reason. We get to say what happened because we're the only ones who care.