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

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

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.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

One must be frank to be relevant.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

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

Words are all we have.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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

The desire to write grows with writing.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

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

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.

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.

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

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.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

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

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

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

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

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

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

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

A different language is a different vision of life.

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

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

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

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.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

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

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

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

Language is a virus from outer space.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

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

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

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

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

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.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

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

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

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

Writing is the supreme solace.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

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

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

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Writing only leads to more writing.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

The press is the enemy.

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

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

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.

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

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

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

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

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

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

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.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

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.

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

Brevity is the soul of wit.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

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

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

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.