Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Communication

Communication

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence.--Deborah Tannen (You Just Don't Understand)
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.--Truman Capote (Music for Chameleons)
... everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.--Brenda Ueland
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.--Virginia Satir
The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, "Me, too!" versus "So what?"--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine January 28, 2003)
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.--Anne Morrow Lindbergh ("Argonauta" Gift From the Sea)
He says, "You're always late."
She says, "You're always rushing me."
One point for him.
One point for her.
Total score: zero.--Michael P. Nichols (The Lost Art of Listening)
Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.--Caterina Rando
It is easier to communicate with spirits than for one university department to communicate with another.--G. Wilson Knight (Neglected Powers)
A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.--Barry Neil Kaufman
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.--J. B. Priestly ("Televiewing" Thoughts in the Wilderness)
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.--Fyodor Dostoyevsky ("Critical Articles" Complete Collected Works)
Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.--Virginia Satir (Peoplemaking)
Our most common way of talking is telling: asserting the truth about the way things are and must be, not allowing that there might be other truths and possibilities. And our most common way of listening is not listening: listening only to our own talking, not to others.--Adam Kahane (Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities)
Precision of communication is important, more important than ever in our era of hair-trigger balances, when a false, or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.--James Thurber ("Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ear Muffs" Lanterns and Lances)
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.--Joseph Pulitzer
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.--Mark Twain (Mark Twain's Speeches ed. by Paine)
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.--Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Too much agreement kills a chat.--Eldridge Cleaver ("A Day in Folsom Prison" Soul on Ice)
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Worship" The Conduct of Life)
The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentation, doubt and poison.--Parkinson's Law
When we clearly understand that there is no superior sex or superior race, we will have opened the door of communication and laid the foundation for building winning relationships with all people in this global world of ours.--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine 10/13/03)