Tuesday, June 26, 2012

My favorite communication quotes


My favorite comms quotes that I have also used in my forthcoming book Decoding Communication. 

“Everything becomes a little different
as soon as it is spoken out loud.”
                                             - Hermann Hesse

Trust is learned over time, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves without much reflection.”
- Robert C. Solomon

“It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
- Albert Einstein

“Attraction and repulsion are
necessary to human existence.”
- William Blake

What we think, we become.”
- Gautama Buddha

“Knowledge, like fire, must first be
kindled by some external agent,
and will afterwards propagate itself.”
- Samuel Johnson

“Build trust.
The rest will take care of itself.”
- Anonymous

“We are all caught
in this inescapable net of humanity.”
-           Martin Luther King

“The final mystery is oneself.”
- Oscar Wilde

Jos viestintä voi epäonnistua, niin se epäonnistuu.”
("If Communication can fail, it will.")
            - Wiio’s first law [Original in Finnish]

“Good communication is
as stimulating as black coffee,
and just as hard to sleep after.”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh



“We never are
definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong.”
- Richard Fenyman

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