Quotes about Communication
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
— Calvin Coolidge
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!
— Winston Churchill
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Without tact you can learn nothing.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.
— Anonymous
Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.
— Thomas Merton
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
— Samuel Johnson
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
— George Bernard Shaw
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.
— Samuel Johnson
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
— Thomas Paine
Tact is the ability to deal with people sensitively, to avoid giving offense, to have a "feel" for the proper words or responses to a delicate situation.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.
— J. Oswald Sanders