Quotations and Poems

» “You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.”
– Creighton Abrams

»  ”For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.”
– George Ade

»  ”Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

»  ”The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.”
– Atwell

»  ”I’ve not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.”
– John Banham

»  ”The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.”
– Bernard M. Baruch

»  ”You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen to you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, ”No Shit!” or at least, ”No kidding!””
– Gael Boardman

»  ”Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.”
– Les Brown

»  ”For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?”
– Bruce Burton

»  ”There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.”
– Dale Carnegie

»  ”The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
– Dale Carnegie

»  ”If you cry ”Forward” you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don’t you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?”
– Anton Chekhov

»  ”Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.”
– Frank Moore Colby

»  ”Two monologues do not make a dialogue.”
– Jeff Daly

»  ”It’s vital the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It’s what I try and do.”
– Princess of Wales Diana

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

»  ”The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.”
– Peter F. Drucker

»  ”The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.”
– Peter F. Drucker

»  ”Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
– T. S. Eliot

»  ”When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

»  ”Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.”
– Edward M. Forster

»  ”Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
– Robert Frost

»  ”Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, and wants it down.”
– Robert Frost

»  ”To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.”
– Geibel

»  ”No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

»  ”Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.”
– Oliver Goldsmith

»  ”I’ve noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in conference, are adaptable. They quickly get the other fellow’s view. They are more eager to do this than to express their own ideas. Also, they state their own point of view convincingly.”
– John Hallock

»  ”The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively, but says nothing.”
– Henry S. Haskins

»  ”There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.”
– Ernest Hello

»  ”A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.”
– Robert M. Hutchins

»  ”A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.”
– Robert M. Hutchins

»  ”Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.”
– Thomas S. Kuhn

»  ”I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.”
– Tom Lehrer

»  ”I wish people that have trouble communicating would just shut up!”
– Tom Lehrer

»  ”He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.”
– Abraham Lincoln

»  ”Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

»  ”There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.”
– John Locke

»  ”It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.”
– Menander of Athens

»  ”Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.”
– John Milton

»  ”We always speak well when we manage to be understood.”
– Moli