Quotes about Communication
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.
- Dale Carnegie
Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.
- Bill Gates
You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
- William Hazlitt
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
- Lou Holtz
In good writing, words become one with things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
- Alain de Botton
There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.
- JC Ryle
A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.
- John Maxwell
A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.
- Simon Sinek
Only good questions deserve good answers.
- Oscar Wilde