"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody." ~ Benjamin Franklin
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. ~ Lee Iacocca
The genius of communication is the ability to be both totally honest and totally kind at the same time. ~ John Powell, Secret of Staying in Love
You lose it if you talk about it. ~ Ernest Hemingway
A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother. ~ Francis Bacon
Examine what is said, not him who speaks. ~ Arab Proverb
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ~ Ann Morrow Lindbergh
When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics. ~ François Voltaire
Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious. ~ H. Ross Perot
What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate. ~ Frank R. Pierson
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. ~ Friedrich W. Nietzsche
The art of communication is the language of leadership. ~ James Humes
Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them. ~ Michael Caine