Communication Quotes

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."

"The pen is the tongue of the mind."

"There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen."

"One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it."

"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted."

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."

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

"Polite conversation is rarely either."

"Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection."

"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."

"Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment."

"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."

"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."

"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."

"The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."

"Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot."

"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

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

"The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently."

"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."

"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."

"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."

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

"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."

"Language is a virus from outer space."

"Good words are worth much, and cost little."

"He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave."

"A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them."

"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."

"Words are but the signs of ideas."

"To hold a pen is to be at war."

"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."

"Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized."

"In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do."

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

"Communication is everyone's panacea for everything."

"No pleasure has any savor for me without communication."

"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."

"Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing."

"If you wish to be a writer, write."

"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."

"There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak."

"There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to."

"The press is the enemy."

"In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away."

"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."

"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."

"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."

"Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself."

"Syllables govern the world."