Communication Skills

Silence is safer than speech. - Epictetus

Monogamy: A synonym for monotony. - Gregory Nunn

Is there another word for synonym? - George Carlin

Fair speech may hide a foul heart. - JRR Tolkien

What's another word for thesaurus? - Steven Wright

Speech is the small change of silence. - George Meredith

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

Nothing you can't spell will ever work. - Will Rogers

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. - Leo Rosten

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal

Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. - Sivananda

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

The 3 fastest means of communication: Twitter; Telephone; Tell a woman. - Unknown

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong. - Barbra Streisand

A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. - Dianne Feinstein

The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution. - Chuck Martin

Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character. - Johann Kasper Lavater

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones

There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate. - Margaret Mead

The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt

Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there. - AJ Gossip

Grammar: 1. Lives with granpar; 2. The difference between Feeling Your Nuts and Feeling You’re Nuts. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. - Jack Welch

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas, and good intentions, but precious few of them ever translate those into action. - John Hancock Field

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra

The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people. - Reed Hastings

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Unknown