Communication Skills Quotes

“The opposite of love isn’t hate.  It’s indifference, lethal neutrality, apathy.  You don’t care. Instead of energy there’s malaise, inertia. Instead of chemistry there’s emptiness. Instead of substance there’s frivolousness. The relationship is all but dead.”
― Susan Scott, Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts---One Conversation at a Time

“The idea I want you to embrace is that our relationships thrive, flatline, or fail, gradually then suddenly—one conversation at a time.”
― Susan Scott, Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts---One Conversation at a Time

“When couples cannot talk about their problems in a healthy way and become entrenched in their opinions, they have the same failed conversations over and over.  The relationship becomes emotionally clogged. Friction and frustration grow. Partners feel rejected, like they can’t get through to one another.  Behaviors associated with conflict avoidance include passive aggressive behavior, withdrawal. ”
― Susan Scott, Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts---One Conversation at a Time

“No one completes us.  No one is our missing piece, our other half.  We complete ourselves or fail to.   No one else could be successful in that role because each of us is utterly unique.  There isn’t another “you” anywhere on this planet.  If you somehow feel incomplete, the answers aren’t out there somewhere.  The answers are in the room.  You have them.  ”
― Susan Scott, Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts---One Conversation at a Time

“Don't be nice. Be loyal. Nice can be faked. Loyalty can not.”
― Geoffrey Ocaya

“An effective correspondence leaves no room for confusion between you
and your clients.”
― Sim Ngezahayo, Essentials of Career Management for Language Professionals: A Blueprint for Mastering your Career and Leading a Healthy Work-Life Balance

“Language has such power over the human mind. If one learns to use language wisely, one would be successful in all one’s ventures.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, The Road Taken

“Words are never good or bad on their own, context makes them so.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“There is no such thing as perfect communication; there is effective communication, which is a process of feedback and progressive adjustments. The delusion that perfect communication is possible generates a frustration that damages our relationships and personal lives.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“It isn’t just what you know, it’s who you know.
It isn’t just what you do, it’s what others are willing to do for you. Your network is your net worth!”
― Nicky Verd, Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted

“Communication is the sum of all the things one person does when he wants to create understanding in the minds of another. It involves a systematic and continuous process of telling, listening, and understanding.”
― Louis A. Allen, Professional Management

“Words spoken with mere lips reach nowhere.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Speech without heart is nothing but noise.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“COMMUNITIEs' are the only problem of all living creatures on this 'Planet Earth'. & human's suffering because of multiple communities - made/maintained/created by them, in the name of so many Human languages only. But blamed in the name of GOD/CREATOR: Mono/Poly-theistic creations.”
― Tanveer Hossain Mullick

“Vulnerability and honesty go together. I have little time for people who don’t have the capacity for either. You never get anywhere with them.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Communication happens only between two logical people.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Exchanging perspectives is normal communication. Trying to prove the validity of our perspective is insanity.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“An effective correspondence leaves no room for confusion between you and your clients.”
― Sim Ngezahayo, Essentials of Career Management for Language Professionals: A Blueprint for Mastering your Career and Leading a Healthy Work-Life Balance

“When we say we want someone who understands us, what we really mean is that we want someone who will agree with us”
― Luigina Sgarro

“What you say matters.”
― Alex Merry, Make It Count: How to deliver high-stakes presentations to people you need to impress at work

“Emotional contrast creates memories.”
― Alex Merry, Make It Count: How to deliver high-stakes presentations to people you need to impress at work

“The problem with most presentations is they emotionally flatline and the audience struggles to connect with the speaker and the message as a result. A presentation needs both positive and negative moments in order for it to be an engaging and memorable experience.”
― Alex Merry, Make It Count: How to deliver high-stakes presentations to people you need to impress at work

“Your audience has got a long list of things that they'd rather be doing than listening to you!”
― Alex Merry, Make It Count: How to deliver high-stakes presentations to people you need to impress at work

“Your passion is your presentation's life raft.”
― Alex Merry

“If you have a question about something you have read or heard, first site your source and then ask the direct question to the person it concerns. Playing around the mulberry bush gets you nowhere.”
― Niedria Kenny

“Small talk is called so, because it results in small ideas.”
― Richard Di Britannia, Small Talk Small Ideas: Fifty Ways to Have a Deep Conversation

“It was a lesson in finding the right words for things. The process can be counted upon to go badly awry. We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with the need to communicate, but which fails to do justice to what has induced us to do so. We hear Beethoven's Ninth, and hum poum, poum, poum; we see the pyramids at Giza and go, "That's nice." These sounds are asked to account for an experience, but their poverty prevents either ourselves or our interlocutors from really understanding what we have lived through.”
― Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

“I can't stand that shit - people talking about things they think they should talk about, so as not to be socially awkward.”
― Nick Bradley, El gato y la ciudad

“A big component of effective communication is to treat people as they wish to be treated.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“A person's name is the sweetest and most important sound to them”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People