Communication Skills
When the art of speaking overtakes the art of listening
Why we have two ears and one mouth
QuotaBillsSilence 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