communication quotes

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

I can express myself.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

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.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.