"Men shout to avoid listening to one another." Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936)

"Great people talk about ideas; average people talk about things; small people talk about others." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Instead of scurrying into a corner and wailing about what [the] media are doing to us, one should charge straight ahead and kick them in the electrodes." Marshall McLuhan

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own." Benjamin Disraeli

"Silence is where the victims dwell." Nelly Sachs

"A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away." Bil Keane

"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without diminishing mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." Thomas Jefferson

"Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve." Oliver Wendell Holmes

"People don't get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don't know each other. They don't know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.": Oliver Goldsmith, writer and physician (1730-1774)

"Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way." Jean Anouilh, playwright (1910-1987)

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him." Leo Aikman

"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change." Thich Nhat Hanh

"If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear." Mark Twain

"Talk does not cook rice." Chinese proverb

"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes." Cato the Elder

"To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue." proverb

"Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech that you will ever regret." Ambrose Bierce

"A good listener helps us overhear ourselves." Yahia Lababidi, author (b. 1973)

"What did the tree learn from the earth
to be able to talk with the sky?" Pablo Neruda

"Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen Alfred. M. Gray, USMC C4I.org - Computer Security, & Intelligence

"Art is the expression of the most profound thoughts in the simplest way." Albert Einstein

"Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is." William James, psychologist and philosopher (1842-1910)

"Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." George Orwell, 1984

"Images are living things. The come from a place of imagination, and in this realm there are special ways to communicate with images that resonate with the creative process and reflect the truth of artistic expression." Cathy Malchiodi

"So many people have spent a lifetime for preparing themselves for technological skills yet have spent no time training themselves on how to influence people so the technical skills make a difference." Marshall Goldsmith

"There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all." :-)

"Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing." Henry David Thoreau

"In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied often to prayer." Mark Twain

"Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts." Madame de Stael,writer (1766-1817)

"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate." Joseph Priestly

"Slang is the poetry of everyday life." S. I. Hayakawa

"How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves." Francois de La Rochefoucauld, writer (1613-1680)

"A good listener helps us overhear ourselves." Yahia Lababidi

"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight." Leo Rosten

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)

"The desire to make a mark is ancient. It seems that many species communicate through marking. My dog walks with me every day before we go to the studio. He continues to 'mark' on trees outside the post office after sniffing around for several minutes to sense what other dog has been there before. I retrieve my mail, I read it, I look through the catalogs and colorful junk mail, and he checks the tree. We are both receiving communication through marks." Annette Carroll Compton, Drawing from the Mind, Painting from the Heart

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." William Arthur Ward

"The inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind." Walter Bagehot, 1870

"By nature, we are storytelling beings. To be human is to have a story to tell." Cathy Malchiodi

“Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.” Margaret J. Wheatley

"The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression." Eugene Wigner

“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.” Doug Larson

"The body says what words cannot." Martha Graham

“You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.” Stephen Covey

"Praise works with only three types of people; men, women, and children." Anonymous

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way -- things I had no words for.” Georgia O'Keeffe

“Only weak messages need strong messengers.” unknown

“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.” Montaigne

“Jargon and slang speak volumes about the people who use them. Like a form of data compression, they can pack a tremendous amount of information -- the values, ideas, anxieties, and humor of a subculture -- into a single word or phrase. We can learn a lot about a subculture by decompressing its language. “ Gareth Branwyn, American journalist and writer, Jargon Watch, 1997

“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.” Saki (1870 - 1916), 'The Square Egg', 1924

“Brilliant people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.” anonymous

“Tact is the art of building a fire under people without making their blood boil.” Franklin P. Jones

“...the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.” James Earl Jones

“We never listen when we are eager to speak.” Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld

“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.” Frank Tyger

“The body says what words cannot.” Martha Graham (1893 - 1991)

“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.” Howard W. Newton

“Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.” Mark Helprin

“If you can't get people to listen, tell them it's confidential.” Anonymous

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” George Bernard Shaw

“Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.” Joseph Pulitzer

“Precision of communication is important, more important than ever in our era of hair-trigger balances, when a false, or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.” James Thurber

“How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but by how well we are understood.” Andy Grove