It's Better Speech and Hearing Month! Help your team focus on improving their communication and be inspired by the words of Mark Twain, Peter Drucker, Walt Disney, and Winston Churchill, among others. Check out my blog at SpeechisBeautiful.com or tweet me @sarahburnswu.

1. Quotes about
Communication
Inspiration for Those Who Lead
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2. “The single biggest problem in
communication
is the illusion
that it has taken place.”
-George Bernard Shaw
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3. “Of all of our inventions
for mass communication,
pictures still speak the
most universally
understood language.”
-Walt Disney
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4. “Words of comfort, skillfully
administered, are the oldest
therapy known to man.”
-Louis Nizer
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5. “It usually takes me
more than three weeks
to prepare a good
impromptu speech.”
-Mark Twain
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6. “The most important
thing in
communication is
hearing what isn't
said.”
-Peter Drucker
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7. “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
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8. “Words are, of course,
the most powerful drug
used by mankind.”
-Rudyard Kipling
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9. “If you have an important point to
make, don't try to be subtle or
clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the
point once. Then come back and
hit it again. Then hit it a third
time - a tremendous whack.”
-Winston Churchill
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10. “Wise men speak because
they have something to
say; Fools because they
have to say something.”
-Plato
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11. “The two words 'information' and
'communication' are often used
interchangeably, but they signify quite
different things. Information is giving out;
communication is getting through.”
-Sydney J. Harris
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12. “Communication leads to
community, that is, to
understanding, intimacy
and mutual valuing.”
-Rollo May
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13. “Good words are worth
much, and cost little.”
-George Herbert
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14. “Write to be understood,
speak to be heard,
read to grow.”
-Lawrence Clark Powell
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15. “The difference between
the right word and the
almost right word is the
difference between
lightning and
lightning bug.”
-Mark Twain
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16. “The less people
know, the more
they yell.”
-Seth Godin
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17. “The way we communicate
with others and with
ourselves ultimately
determines the quality of
our lives.”
-Tony Robbins
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18. “Kind words can be
short and easy to
speak, but their echoes
are truly endless.”
-Mother Teresa
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19. “Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I
don’t anymore. I realized it was killing
conversation. When you’re always
trying for a topper you aren’t really
listening. It ruins communication.”
-Groucho Marx
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20. “A man's character may
be learned from the
adjectives which he
habitually uses in
conversation”
-Mark Twain
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21. “Be sincere;
be brief;
be seated.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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22. “The spoken word belongs
half to him who speaks, and
half to him who listens.”
-French Proverb
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23. “Everything becomes
a little different
as soon as it is
spoken out loud.”
-Hermann Hesse
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24. “First learn the
meaning of
what you say,
and then speak.”
-Epictetus
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25. “Speak clearly, if you
speak at all; carve
every word before you
let it fall.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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26. “The basic building block
of good communications
is the feeling that
every human being is
unique and of value.”
-Unknown
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27. “We should be as
careful of our words
as of our actions.”
-Cicero
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28. Quotes about
Communication
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