Effective Communication Quotes

Effective communication is a key factor in the success of your product.

Developing emotional intelligence is one way to protect yourself from damaging relationships. Emotional intelligence is a science that has been studied and researched for over a decade. According to the theories, mutual respect and effective communication are key.

Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Effective communication is the best way to solve problems.

Give me the gift of a listening heart.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

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.

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

The less people know, the more they yell.

In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best.

Communication works for those who work at it.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Big egos have little ears.

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

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.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

Strong families cultivate an attribute of effective communication. They talk out their problems, make plans together, and cooperate toward common objectives.

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.

The lingo used in the space is so arcane and out of date that investors have no context for the discussions. The failure to establish a clear, effective communication system has been the biggest sin private equity has committed.

The most important things are the hardest to say

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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.

The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from meaning, not language. Accuracy is the most effective style of all.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.