Communication Problem Quotes

#1. Most of the time when there's a communication problem, it's because the message being received is not the message you want. It's not that they don't know what they need to do, how we need to act as a team, whatever. If you don't like the message, then you go say there's a communication problem.

Mike D'Antoni

#2. My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.

Oona Chaplin

#3. Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation that you don't want to have.

Gay Hendricks

#4. The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.

Stephen R. Covey

#5. Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

Susanna Kaysen

#6. Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

Daniel Everett

#7. Women tend to communicate early and often about a problem. Men are more likely to view communication as a tool, and when they see it as the wrong tool for the job, they believe it should be stored neatly in the toolbox.

Shawn T. Smith

#8. The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.

Cesare Pavese

#9. Every moment each human being is doing the best we know at that moment to meet our needs. We never do anything that is not in the service of a need, there is no conflict on our planet at the level of needs. We all have the same needs. The problem is in strategies for meeting the needs.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#10. The problem with so much religious communication is that it aims at changing our minds. The result is that we can hear the message of the preacher without necessarily heeding the message; we can listen to the "truth" and agree with it, yet not change in response to it.

Peter Rollins

#11. A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

John Dewey

#12. ( ... ) my problem with paper is that all communication dies with it. It holds no possibility of continuity.

Dave Eggers

#13. The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.

George Bernard Shaw

#14. We'll never solve the problems we don't talk about.

Justin Young

#15. That I had been shallow, stubborn, and selfish did not alter the gravity and stupidity of what I had done. I had made the greatest mistake for a woman literate in nu shu: I had not considered texture, context, and shades of meaning.

Lisa See

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

George Bernard Shaw

#17. I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

Laura Linney

#18. To reach him you have to back up and back up, and the further back you go, the further back you see you have to go, until what looked like a small problem of communication turns into a major philosophic inquiry.

Robert M. Pirsig

#19. The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

Claude Shannon

#20. One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

Georges Simenon

#21. Direct communication is the best way to go through life. But many people do not deal with others in that fashion. Instead, they practice avoidance (ignoring the person or the problem) or triangulation (bringing in a third person) or overlooking.

Henry Cloud

#22. She won't know it if I'm not say it. Say that 3 times, and you should know what's the main problem.

Olivia Sinaga

#23. People frequently point to communication as a problem, because its easy to notice, but usually it is a symptom of an underlying problem with a relationship posture.

Roberta M. Gilbert

#24. The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

Terence McKenna

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

Emma Thompson

#26. Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.

David Allen

#27. Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.

Thomas Sowell

#28. Digital communication is such a problem sometimes.

John Green

#29. I think each film I do has less and less dialogue. It really helps a lot for foreign sales, because when I go to Europe, there's very little problem with communication. All the gags are visual. The music they can understand, and it helps communicate a lot better.

Bill Plympton

#30. I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#31. A key to healthy problem solving is good communication.

Asa Don Brown

#32. The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

Edward R. Murrow

#33. We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff.

Robert Townsend

#34. I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women.

Hill Harper

#35. The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

E.B. White

#36. Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character
looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behavior as communication. Discipline is thus seen as problem-solving. The child is helped to learn a more acceptable manner of communication.

Ellen Galinsky

#37. God has gifted me in communication. He has given me a gift to be very open about myself, which seems to really help a lot of people. It's not even anything I do on purpose. It's just something I don't have a problem with. I don't care what you know about me if it will help you.

Joyce Meyer

#38. Desire, problem solving, and communication are all signs of intelligence and awareness. My cat has these, so it's quite possible he has a soul too.

Lewis N. Roe

#39. The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.

Chip Heath

#40. She didn't say anything - at least, not with her mouth. Her eyes told me a different story. The only problem was that they each had a thousand tongues talking, each in a language I didn't speak.

J.X. Burros

#41. Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.

Al Ries