communication quotes

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

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.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

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.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

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

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.