Daily Inspiration

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

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

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.

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

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

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

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

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 evry part of your life.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

The desire to write grows with writing.

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

Words are all we have.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

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

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

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.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

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

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

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

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

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.