Quotes on Communicators

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

When you forget yourself and your fear, when you get beyond self-consciousness because your mind is thinking about what you are trying to communicate, you become a better communicator

Why do people who consider themselves good communicators often fail to actually hear each other? Often it's due to a mismatch of styles: To someone who prefers to vent, someone who prefers to explain seems patronizing; explainers experience venters as volatile.

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

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.