Quotes about Communication

I have a hyperbolical tongue: it catches fire as it goes. I dare say I shall have to retract.

There is correct English: that is not slang. I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I was in college for organizational communication and politics because I was just fascinated by influence. I wondered how people have influence, not because I wanted to inspire the world - yet.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.