Communication Quotes

"Sometimes you have to get out of your own way and listen to what other people are saying to you." "Words are like leaves and where they most abound much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found" "I wish I could speak Spanish because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles." "Know what you are talking about" "Brevity is the soul of command" "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will." "Honestly, I don't have much to say " "You don't need words to express how you feel" "The power of humans depends on the power of our stories" "If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation." "Your job is to tell your story." "There is no sale without the story; no knockout without the setup." "It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again" "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music" "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter" "To say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words" "To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery" "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree." "Literature is news that stays news." "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."