Communication Quotes

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
Edward R. Murrow

Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success.
Paul J. Meyer

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.
Jim Rohn

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

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.
Peter Drucker

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.
Tony Robbins

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Rollo May

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 evry part of your life.
Brian Tracy

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.
Jada Pinkett Smith

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

Number one, cash is king… number two, communicate… number three, buy or bury the competition.
Jack Welch

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

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
J. B. Priestley

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
Earl Wilson

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel Adams

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.
Emma Thompson

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
Mark Zuckerberg

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
James Madison

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

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.
Marilyn vos Savant

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T. S. Eliot

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

Communication is everyone’s panacea for everything.
Tom Peters

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
Rowan Williams

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.
Michel de Montaigne

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
Pearl S. Buck

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.
Paulo Coelho

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
Eugenio Montale

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.
Tom Wolfe

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
Faith Baldwin

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
William Bernbach

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
Marcel Marceau

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
William Albert Allard

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Stephen Covey

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
Omar Bongo

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

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
Jeanette Winterson

There’s all these ways to instantly communicate – cars, computers, telephone and transportation – and even with all that, it’s so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.
Jason Schwartzman

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.
Bill Gates

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.
Elon Musk

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

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney

It’s like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There’s all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.
William T. Wiley

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
Michel de Montaigne

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

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.
Dick Wolf

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other’s slave.
Baltasar Gracian

We don’t communicate in full sentences anyway. We don’t need all those words.
Shepard Smith

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person’s mind.
Rebecca West

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
Marya Mannes

Extremists think ‘communication’ means agreeing with them.
Leo Rosten

Writing is a communication.
Theodore Sturgeon

But I’m acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today’s world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.
Armistead Maupin

The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.
Frank Luntz

In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.
Erno Rubik

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.
Peter Krause

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
Kenneth L. Pike

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

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was ‘Help me.’ Sometimes a prayer was ‘Thank you.’ What I’ve discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.
Iyanla Vanzant

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir

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

The art of communication is the language of leadership.
James Humes

Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication.
Dinesh Paliwal

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Walt Disney

In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.
Palmer Luckey

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.
Thich Nhat Hanh

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
Lesley Garrett

I studied at Cathedral School, where a lot of kids go abroad after Class XII. But I was clear that I wanted to be an actress, and thus, even though I got 92% in my board exams, I applied only to Jai Hind College for Mass Communication and got in and completed my graduation.
Kiara Advani

The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.
Tariq Ramadan

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave Barry

If you improve a teacher’s self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher’s overall effectiveness across the curriculum.
Elaine MacDonald

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn’t methodical, but jazz isn’t messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
Nat Wolff

I think for any relationship to be successful, there needs to be loving communication, appreciation, and understanding.
Miranda Kerr

Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person’s sense of self-worth.
Anthony Carmona

As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication. Meetings must be deliberate and intentional – your organizational rhythm should value purpose over habit and effectiveness over efficiency.
Chris Fussell

After a natural disaster, safe drinking water is a priority. Humans can live longer without food than water, so communication about clean water is essential to help avoid the risk of cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, famine, and death.
Tae Yoo

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Alain Dehaze

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
Harold S. Geneen

The ABC’s are attitude, behavior and communication skills.
Gerald Chertavian

I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don’t have.
Shoshannah Stern

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
Benjamin E. Mays

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
Lou Rawls

We’ve seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, ‘This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.’
Ramez Naam

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
John Marshall

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo Rosten

I use technology for communication, but I don’t have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I’m fine with it.
Nicolas Cage

My biggest piece of advice when it comes to bullying is to have an open communication about it.
Lizzie Velasquez

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
Marshall McLuhan

We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.
Maya Soetoro-Ng

Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there’s nothing. So when it’s damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.
Earl Sweatshirt

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.
Kenneth Lonergan

We’re making this analogy that AI is the new electricity. Electricity transformed industries: agriculture, transportation, communication, manufacturing.
Andrew Ng

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan Greenspan

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.
Simone Weil

Trust brings a higher level of communication and a higher level of commitment and accountability.
Bruce Arians

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.
Hideki Tojo

We live in a world of communication – everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don’t just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It’s the crime of humiliation.
Zygmunt Bauman

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
James Cash Penney

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.
Anne Spencer

Art is essentially communication. It doesn’t exist in a vacuum. That’s why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
Conor Oberst

The truly unique trait of ‘Sapiens’ is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course, not all fictions are shared by all humans, but at least one has become universal in our world, and this is money.
Yuval Noah Harari

In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life.
Julie Payette

I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
John le Carre

As long as there is communication, everything can be solved.
Robert Trujillo

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Abraham Maslow

I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin.
Itzhak Perlman

Communication helps you build up trust and respect… It gets everyone on the same page.
Mack Brown

As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it’s only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference.
John McCain

Digital communication is completely different from in-person, face-to-face conversations. One will give you surface insights, and the other really gives you depth.
Joe Gebbia

A lasting relationship isn’t about marriage. It’s about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.
Goldie Hawn

We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don’t have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present.
Richard Dawkins

It’s refreshing to just see someone that you can have honest communication with.
Danny Ainge

Revelation is communication from God to His children on the earth and one of the great blessings associated with the gift and constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.
David A. Bednar

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.
Bo Bennett

Communication is at the very core of our society. That’s what makes us human.
Jan Koum

You hope to bring your ‘A Game’ to any game, and of course you do in a final. You hope to bring experience, fitness, communication skills, motivational skills.
Edwin van der Sar

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
Thom Mayne

What does music mean to me? I don’t think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It’s my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.
Erykah Badu

Our most valuable resources – creativity, communication, invention, and reinvention – are, in fact, unlimited.
David Grinspoon

I don’t like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can’t converse with people. Maybe it’s because of my stuttering or stammering, but I’m not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family.
Pritam Chakraborty

Mental communication without verbalization… all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.
Tina Louise

Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal.
Timothee Chalamet

In World War II, a British mathematician named Alan Turing led the effort to crack the Nazis’ communication code. He mastered the complex German enciphering machine, helping to save the world, and his work laid the basis for modern computer science. Does it matter that Turing was gay?
Alan K. Simpson

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
Charles Kennedy

Lack of communication is the key to any successful relationship going wrong.
Pepa

The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don’t understand digital communication, you’re at a disadvantage.
Bob Parsons

Sometimes I worry that I’m terrible at communication and keeping in touch, but there are some friends who you can reconnect with whenever and it’s like no time has passed at all; those relationships are so special, because they feel like home.
Vick Hope

Communication and communication strategy is not just part of the game – it is the game.
Oscar Munoz

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.
Ken Robinson

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.
Douglas Adams

If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not walk in there eating a ham sandwich unless I wanted to be rejected so I could have an excuse to cop out.
Saul Alinsky

What I’m primarily responsible for is products. Everything is developed with my personal involvement. Second is client communication. Everything to do with product and consumer is my primary focus. I also deal with everything which relates to investment and partnership. Distribution, finance, administration, I don’t do.
Roustam Tariko

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
Noam Chomsky

A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.
Alex Grey

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

Sure, I love people, and I want to communicate with people. I mean, what is music anyway? It’s a form of communication – at least for me it is. And that’s why I play the kind of music that I think – that I hope – can communicate with people.
Kenny G

When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.
Iman Shumpert

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
Jacques Lacan

The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond.
Sheila E.