Communication Quotes

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Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

- Marshall Rosenberg

"What will they think of me?" must be put aside for bliss.

- Joseph Campbell

[A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about.

- Margaret J. Wheatley

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

- Francis of Assisi

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

- Marshall Rosenberg

Live truth instead of expressing it.

- Elbert Hubbard

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

- Heinrich Heine

There is an endless net of threads throughout the universe...
At every crossing of the threads there is an individual.
And every individual is a crystal bead.
And every crystal bead reflects
Not only the light from every other crystal in the net
But also every other reflection
Throughout the entire universe.

an adaptation of The Net of Jewels, or Indra's Net, one of the oldest written creations of humanity

- Anne Adams

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation -- or a relationship.

- Deborah Tannen

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

- William Butler Yeats

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

- Faith Baldwin

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

- George Bernard Shaw

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

- Bill Gates

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

- Jessamyn West

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

- Stephen King

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

- Ernest Hemingway

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

- David Bohm

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 every part of your life.

- Brian Tracy

We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged.

- Bill Clinton

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication -- particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

- Thor Heyerdahl

There's no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution.

- Betty Williams

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

- Rowan D. Williams

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes