Top 100 Quotes About Communication Skills
#1. Toddlers really are daft with their inexperience and lack of communication skills. They all need to fucking grow up.
Sarah Noffke
#2. I think we both need to work on our communication skills. (Kiara) I tried that once. (Nykyrian) And? (Kiara) Darling told me that I could never hold a job as a suicide counselor or hostage negotiator. He said my failure rate would become the stuff of legends. (Nykyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#3. Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why salespeople fail ... 15% Improper training both product and sales skills. 20% Poor verbal and written communication skills. 15% Poor or problematic boss or management. 50% Attitude.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#4. You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.
Erik Qualman
#5. Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.
Robert Kiyosaki
#6. As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.
Jim Evans
#7. The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in English.
Paul Clitheroe
#8. Psychopathy was positively associated with in-house ratings of charisma and presentation style: creativity, good strategic thinking, and excellent communication skills.
Kevin Dutton
#9. Writing requires discipline, detailed thinking, good communication skills, a plan of action, clear vision, and a passion for people. CMT Stibbe
C.M.T. Stibbe
#10. If the way you've been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you'd better take a fresh look at your interpersonal communication skills.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#11. In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#12. If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
Adam Driver
#13. To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan Greenspan
#14. You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.
Lesley Gore
#16. A good ice hockey player is someone who has good communication skills, is willing to listen and willing to try new things. It's a very technical game and not that easy to pick up. It's a lot of fun but you just have to be patient.
Gerad Adams
#17. All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that enable us to maintain a perspective of empathy for ourselves and others, even under trying conditions.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#18. People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.
Tracy Morgan
#19. People have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.
Stephen R. Covey
#20. Selling and teaching demand that you develop your intrapersonal and interpersonal communication skills. You must be able to communicate with yourself as well as with others in a way that makes them buy your offering or benefit from the knowledge you want to impart.
Archibald Marwizi
#21. We can help educate the individuals who are doing the things they shouldn't be doing in my opinion by understanding that there is a way to achieve their goals and desires whether it's communication skills so they stop hitting and using their anger as oppose to their intelligence.
John Assaraf
#22. But developing relationships with coworkers - your peers, superiors, and subordinates - is incredibly important, perhaps even the most important thing you'll do at work, and this is completely dependent on your communication skills.
Scribendi
#23. A shoulder clap is more appropriate in a business setting. But the underlying principle holds: touch more than the majority of people would in the same context. It demonstrates comfort, leadership, and conviction in your communication skills.
Charlie Houpert
#24. Take away the crazy, three-quarters of the possessiveness, enhance his communication skills, and decrease his love for sticking people with sharp objects, and she wouldn't hesitate to have sex with him. She was barely hesitating as it was.
Shay Rucker
#25. NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#26. I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't converse with people. Maybe it's because of my stuttering or stammering, but I'm not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family.
Pritam Chakraborty
#27. 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.
Jim Rohn
#28. It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.
Virginia Satir
#29. Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.
Mireille Guiliano
#30. If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.
Elaine MacDonald
#31. The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport
Walt Frazier
#32. It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
Aaron Sorkin
#33. When preparing a presentation, it's never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you're focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.
Dale Ludwig
#34. I like people who can keep the conversation going no matter how random the topic gets.
Turcois Ominek
#35. Just as you can't rehearse your way to success, you can't design your way there either.
Dale Ludwig
#36. You have the power to choose the words you write, so choose the right ones. And yes, this applies to the workplace too. Make a difference!
Sudakshina Bhattacharjee
#37. Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning environment that support the development of autonomy and interdependence in the classroom.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#38. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
Brenda Ueland
#39. Communication is an art form that is crafted throughout our lives.
Asa Don Brown
#40. A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.
Dale Ludwig
#41. It's not rocking the boat, Dad. It's called communication. You're allowed to ask questions. Other people do it all the time. Other people don't live in fear of someone else's reactions. They don't relentlessly stress out about getting into trouble.
Koren Zailckas
#42. The issue of who will throw the garbage won't be so trivial when no one is throwing it away, and it starts to stink. When the plates pile up in the kitchen sink, or when the bathroom is grimy and the shampoo ran out. No, it won't be funny then.
Eeva Lancaster
#43. You know it never ceases to amaze me how people twist your words.I used to et it bother me that I was so misunderstood, but now I realise, I can tell a lot about people by what they CHOOSE to see in me
Karen Gibbs
#44. Effective communication requires active listening skills.
Farshad Asl
#45. Wisdom does not only reflect itself in a person's knowledge of what to say. It appears also in his knowledge about how to say it and when it should be said!
Israelmore Ayivor
#46. Your skull encloses your brains. But never forget that anytime you open your mouth to talk, you have opened your mind for the entire world to see what is hidden in there!
Israelmore Ayivor
#47. When I talk about "cyborg literacy," I mean a set of skills and social practices that optimize the ability to use physical and cognitive technologies to augment, amplify, or extend human thinking and communication capabilities.
Howard Rheingold
#48. During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.
Dale Ludwig
#49. Let's get busy. Get up! Stop living an average life. Stop living in a rut. Get ready for a new way to walk and talk. Taller, louder, prouder and thoroughly convinced that you have enough hope in your life to give some away.
J. Loren Norris
#50. Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they are left with only an illusion of connection. This is the intimacy they so ardently seek but with these coping skills find so elusive.
David W. Earle
#51. The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.
Tony Wagner
#52. Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.
Mary Mihalic
#53. Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.
Alistair Cockburn
#54. Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.
John C. Maxwell
#55. Decisions decides your output
Jo
#56. If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth.
Neel Burton
#57. Dialogue isn't a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room; it is a collaboration to find the truth.
Oli Anderson
#58. The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
Harold S. Geneen
#59. Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.
Pamela Cummins
#60. The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.
Denis Waitley
#61. What has this book got to do with Palaeoanthropology? The short answer is 'not one tiny bit'. But it has everything to do with stress, communication and change, especially for the modern Caveman.
Carl Rosier-Jones
#62. If we don't communicate, we certainly can't get much done and if we don't communicate authentically, what we get done is less effective.
Michele Jennae
#63. Of all the life skills available to us, communication is perhaps the most empowering.
Bret Morrison
#64. Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly.
Dianna Booher
#65. For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island.
Na'ama Yehuda
#66. Relationships are an art form created by two or more individuals who have similar or complementary visions, passions, and ambitions.
Asa Don Brown
#67. Effectively clear communication is crucial to a transformational leadership while poor communication is its biggest enemy.
Farshad Asl
#68. Space may seem distant, but is an integral part of our daily life. It drives our modern communication and connects even the remotest family to the ordinary. India's space programme is a perfect example of our vision of Scale, Speed and Skill.
Narendra Modi
#69. It's very important to choose our words very carefully because miscommunication leads to misunderstanding, which rarely leads to anything good.
Charles F. Glassman
#70. Communication can be sent or received through verbal or nonverbal cues.
Asa Don Brown
#71. Talking to that fool is like trying to put socks on an octopus!
James Agee
#72. Communication is really a two-way process with listenining being as important as speaking. Enhancing one's listening skills is therefore as important as enhancing one's speaking skills.
Vishwas Chavan
#73. The key to healthy communication is having a willingness to lay aside our defensive tendencies and accept responsibility for our part of the relationship
Asa Don Brown
#74. Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.
Gerald Jonas
#75. Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.
Kevin Spacey
#76. I have a theory that sometimes people think they need to talk as much as possible, almost as if talking more equates to knowing more.
Mary Mihalic
#77. Communication is the key and saying your words with kindness is the way to go.
Pamela Cummins
#78. However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.
Na'ama Yehuda
#79. The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.
Criss Jami
#80. There is a perception that because individuals with autism have challenges in the area of communication and social skills, they are not interested in having friends. This is not so. Adults with autism may be socially isolated, but it is not always indicative of a preference for solitude.
Chantal Sicile-Kira
#81. Neither sex is wrong in their communication; both sexes need to learn how to understand each other.
Pamela Cummins
#82. There will never be another you. The planet desperately needs your unique purpose, passion and presence.
Julie Reisler
#83. When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity.
Philip Hammond
#84. Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feelings and needs. Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.
Riane Eisler
#85. It's hard to hold a conversation with people when you're not seeing them.
Dale Ludwig
#88. Sales can never be done with 'good' skills or 'good' communication or 'thorough' product knowledge.. It can only be done with PASSION and U gotta be a people loving person, to be alive in sales ...
Honeya
#89. NVC is interested in learning that is motivated by reverence for life, by a desire to learn skills, to contribute better to our own well-being and the well-being of others.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#90. We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn't it be easier to just call them conversations? That's really what they are.
Dale Ludwig
#91. The pride of the digital age is not just in the possession of innovative tools but the ability to skillfully connect with humans behind them
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#92. Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.
Rick Pitino
#93. A powerful leader, like a conductor, need not say a word for his message to be communicated.
Orly Wahba
#94. Good communication may not make a risky deal safe, but poor communication may sell benefits of a good deal.
Dianna Booher
#95. Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective.
William J. Clinton
#96. I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.
Sara Sheridan
#97. Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experience it, it can become one of the richest feelings they have ever had.
Stephen Covey
#98. Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to learn how to think for themselves, how to find meaning in what they learn, and how to work and live together.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#99. When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding
Kirsten Siggins
#100. The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.
Stephen R. Covey
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