Communication Quotes

"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." "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view" "A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities." "The man as he converses is the lover; silent he is the husband" "Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit" "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist" "We inhabit a language rather than a country" "Human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light" "The pen is the tongue of the mind" "The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never." "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." "Leaders who do not act dialogically but insist on imposing their decisions do not organize the people they manipulate them" "Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?" "The more we are able to embrace conflict, the more able we are to repair injury. "