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

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

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

I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

It's vital the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

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

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in conference, are adaptable. They quickly get the other fellow's view. They are more eager to do this than to express their own ideas. Also, they state their own point of view convincingly.

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

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

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.

Don't hide your strategy under a bushel. Communicate it throughout your company. It's better today to disclose too much that too little.

Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.

The higher you go, the wider spreads the network of communication that will make or break you. It extends not only to more people below, but to new levels above. And it extends all around, to endless other departments and interests interacting with yours.