"To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold."

Geibel | Communication | 0 bookmarks

"It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions."

Menander of Athens | Communication | 0 bookmarks

"The art of communication is the language of leadership."

Humes, James | Communication | 9 bookmarks

"You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen to you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, No Shit! or at least, No kidding!"

Boardman, Gael | Communication | 0 bookmarks

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

Eliot, T. S. | Communication | 1 bookmarks

"Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood."

Teague, Jr., Freeman | Communication | 4 bookmarks

"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."

Frost, Robert | Communication | 10 bookmarks

"We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries."

Truman, Harry S | Communication | 0 bookmarks

"I wish people that have trouble communicating would just shut up!"

Lehrer, Tom | Communication | 2 bookmarks

"Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life."

Piece, John A. | Communication | 3 bookmarks

"You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening."

Abrams, Creighton | Communication | 3 bookmarks

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."

Drucker, Peter F. | Communication | 7 bookmarks

"Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative."

Goldsmith, Oliver | Communication | 0 bookmarks

"Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person."

Unknown, Source | Communication | 3 bookmarks

"Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial."

Kuhn, Thomas S. | Communication | 0 bookmarks

"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."

Robbins, Anthony | Communication | 2 bookmarks

"I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up."

Lehrer, Tom | Communication | 3 bookmarks

"The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably."

Atwell | Communication | 2 bookmarks

"What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don't forget that feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication."

Unknown, Source | Communication | 2 bookmarks

"The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use."

Irving, Washington | Communication | 3 bookmarks

"If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it."

Proverb, Persian | Caution | 0 bookmarks

"There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes."

Proverb, Persian | Life and Living | 0 bookmarks

"It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it."

Proverb, Persian | Knowledge | 0 bookmarks

"Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it."

Proverb, Persian | Risk | 2 bookmarks

"Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done."

Proverb, Persian | Things and Little Things | 0 bookmarks

"He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him."

Proverb, Persian | Fools and Foolishness | 1 bookmarks

"He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string."

Proverb, Persian | Experience | 0 bookmarks

"When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth"

Proverb, Persian | Misfortunes | 0 bookmarks

"Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son."

Proverb, Persian | Manners | 0 bookmarks

"Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away."

Proverb, Persian | Death and Dying | 3 bookmarks

"The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust."

Proverb, Persian | Memory | 6 bookmarks

"Luck is infatuated with the efficient."

Proverb, Persian | Luck | 1 bookmarks

"One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it."

Proverb, Persian | Common Sense | 0 bookmarks

"The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy."

Proverb, Persian | Beauty | 2 bookmarks

"Doubt is the key to knowledge."

Proverb, Persian | Doubt | 0 bookmarks

"Epigrams succeed where epics fail."

Proverb, Persian | Aphorisms and Epigrams | 0 bookmarks

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius | Wisdom | 5 bookmarks

"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear."

Ovid | Psychology | 1 bookmarks

"What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others."

Confucius | Superiority | 3 bookmarks

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

Confucius | Revenge | 11 bookmarks

"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

Confucius | Virtue | 2 bookmarks

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

Confucius | Failure | 10 bookmarks

"Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life."

Macaulay, Thomas B. | Knowledge | 2 bookmarks

"Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous."

Confucius | Thoughts and Thinking | 4 bookmarks

"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development."

Confucius | Growth | 6 bookmarks

"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."

Confucius | Silence | 12 bookmarks

"Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change."

Confucius | Change | 7 bookmarks

"Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others."

Confucius | Knowledge | 3 bookmarks

"The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them."

Confucius | Fathers | 1 bookmarks

"Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Confucius | Work | 13 bookmarks

"The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear."

Confucius | Superiority | 3 bookmarks

"Study the past if you would divine the future."

Confucius | Past | 2 bookmarks

"What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others."

Confucius | Example | 4 bookmarks

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

Buddha | Control | 9 bookmarks

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius | Failure | 15 bookmarks

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

Confucius | Self-control | 8 bookmarks