My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.
Margaret Chase Smith
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all
Democritus
A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
John Mason Brown
To some extent we are all the prisoners of stereotypes; we see each other in terms of distorted and oversimplified images. Better communication in the realm of ideas, of the arts, and of science can help refashion these false images. And by seeing more clearly we may act more wisely.
Chester Bliss Bowles
Creating channels between people who want to work together toward change has always been one of the ways that social movements push the world forward and make it better.
Mark Zuckerberg
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
Mark Zuckerberg
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker
The meaning of your communication is the response you get.
Gregory Bateson
Our reputation has been hurt very badly in the last few years. We've had a go-it-alone mentality in a world where because of communications and transportation, you should be going exactly in the other direction.
Michael Bloomberg
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions -- knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ideas -- become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski
The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells
Sandra Bullock
Ones language is a spiritual location. It houses your soul. If you were born in America all essential communication, your deepest conversations with yourself, will be in English. ... Your English is the principal instrument of your humanity.
Saul Bellow