Inspirational Quotes on Communication

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”

“Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.”

“Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.”

“I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.”

“God can use the jawbone of an ass!”

“When men live huddled together without true communication, there seems to be a greater sharing, and a more genuine communion. But this is not communion, only immersion in the general meaninglessness of countless slogans and clichés repeated over and over again so that in the end one listens without hearing and responds without thinking. The constant din of empty words and machine noises, the endless booming of loudspeakers end by making true communication and true communion almost impossible...”

“Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.”

“I sometimes think that writing is like driving a sheep down the road. If there's any gate open to the left or the right the reader will most certainly go into it.”

“Radio was theater of the mind.”

“The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.”

“Nonsense does not improve by being bellowed.”

“It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth.”

“He opened the first letter, No "Dear Mr. Woods." It was a page full of profanities. There was something oddly refreshing about honest, to-the-point hate mail. No hypocrisy and forced politeness. Too many letters ripped you to shreds, then closed off 'Sincerely yours.”

“I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.”

“One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear.”

“He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.”

“Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.”

“Have you ever noticed this — that people never answer what you say? They answer what you mean — or what they think you mean.”

“Although the author dealt some of John Bunyan's conclusions in spiritualizing the details of Solomon's Temple, he attributes to Bunyan a "consecrated ingenuity".”

“The key to Lincoln's famous employment of humor is not that he failed to appreciate the tragic aspects of human existence, but rather that he felt these with such keeness that some relief was required.”