Explore Quotes on Communication

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.

The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.

Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.

Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully and live well with others, developing thoughtfulness, and fostering effective self-expression and communication. Civility includes courtesy, politeness, mutual respect, fairness, good manners, as well as a matter of good health. Taking an active interest in the well-being of our community and concern for the health of our society is also involved in civility.

We talk about the quality of product and service. What about the quality of our relationships and the quality of our communications and the quality of our promises to each other?

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

When we're each aware of our own Magnificence, we don't feel the need to control others, and we won't allow ourselves to be controlled.

We will see beauty in the outer world when we are able to see beauty within ourselves. And this is the best thing we can do for ourselves and for the universe.

Give me the gift of a listening heart.

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future, we try to get a mental picture of what things will be like long before we have begun the journey. Visions are our windows on the world of tomorrow.

Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories.

Communication is the real work of leadership.

Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.