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“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.”
― Mark Twain

“Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
― Henry Winkler

“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
― Fred Rogers

“I just realized my lips are inside out. They should be turned inwards, because I spend most of my time talking to myself.”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

“I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing.
If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.”
― Brian Tracy

“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”
― Anthony Robbins

“I tried all kinds of approaches: sexy, friendly, intimidating—nothing worked. I’m starting to think there’s an invisible force field that prevents honest communication between X and Y chromosomes.”
― Jody Gehrman, Babe in Boyland

“What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

“When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid; I figure it's a sure sign that the animal has somehow outfoxed them”
― Tom Dorrance, True Unity: Willing Communication Between Horse and Human

“For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest”
― Daniel Webster

“Mouths are longer than they are wide, to ensure words don’t come out sideways. Even the word “sideways” comes out straight.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

“Misery is a communicable disease. ”
― Martha Graham

“It was the eyes. The secret of love was in the eyes. The way one person looked at another, the way eyes communicated and spoke when the lips never moved.”
― V.C. Andrews

“Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.”
― Cory Doctorow

“Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

“The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.”
― Edwin H. Friedman

“Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.”
― Steve Kluger

“Communication


Is a work of art

Some are normally born with it

Some may need a chart
”
― Amal Saleh, Poetry Eyes

“No blame, no hate - why no communication?”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.”
― Frithjof Schuon , Esoterism As Principle and As Way

“They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom