Quotes on Effective Communication

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

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.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.

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

Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'

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

Give me the gift of a listening heart.

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.

Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

The most important things are the hardest to say

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.