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Good relationships don’t just happen, it takes time and patience. Communication is the best keyword.

Communication and Trust are two main ingredients for a successful RELATIONSHIP

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. Communication saves relationships
– Henry Winkler

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
– Plato

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
– Mother Teresa

Silence is a higher communication.

Five minutes of communication can save a year’s worth of turmoil and misunderstanding.
– Joyce Meyer

One word could fix the world, Communication

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Be brief, be clear!
Just stick to the point.

Communication is the best way to create strong relationships.
– Jada Koren Pinkett Smith

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

Communication works for those who work at it.
– John Powell

Communication is the solvent of all problems, therefore communication skills are the foundation for personal development.
– Peter Shepherd

Communicate in a respectful manner – Don’t just tell your team members what you want, but explain to them why.
– Jeffrey Morales

The art of communication is the language of leadership.
– James Humes

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
– Albert Einstein

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives
– Tony Robbins

It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.
– Paul ValĂ©ry

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
– Seneca the Younger

The words a leader speaks are important, of course. But how they’re delivered can make all the difference, especially in tough times

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you’ll ever regret.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
– George Bernard Shaw

Effective communication also requires a mutual understanding of needs, wants and desires.
– Kirk Hazlett

Communication is the real work of leadership

We never listen when we are eager to speak.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
– Oscar Wilde

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.
– Marshall Rosenberg

Silence is one great art of conversation.
– William Hazlitt

But good healthy communication is impossible without openness, honesty, and vulnerability.
– Paul Kendall

If you wish to converse with me,
define your terms.
– Voltaire

Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.
– Charles Stuart

Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.
– Steven R. Covey

If you don’t have communication with the people in your life you don’t have nothing!!! So remember to always have open communication with everyone in your life.

Effective communication is
20% what you know and
80% how you feel about what you know.
– Emanuel James

It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
– Menander

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.

– Peter Drucker

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
– Ernest Hemingway

Make sure to communicate your idea quickly and keep it straight to the point.
– Paul Bailey

Building a strong team around you and being able to really communicate well with them is part of what’s going to bring you a higher level of success.
– Meghan Markle

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
– Jonathan Swift

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

– Epictetus

Communication is essential to promote your ideas.

Be silent, or say something better than silence.
– Pythagoras

He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
– Lao Tzu

Your ability to communicate
is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals,
whether it is with your family,
your co-workers or your clients and customers.
– Leslie C.

Of all the life skills available to us, communication is perhaps the most empowering.
– Brett Morrison

When the trust account is high,
communication is easy, instant, and effective.
– Stephen Richards Covey

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

– Rollo May

The two words information and communication are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

– Sydney Harris

The less people know, the more they yell.
– Seth Godin

There is a world of communication
which is not dependent on words.
– Mary Virginia Martin

Communication is everyone’s panacea for everything.

– Tom Peters

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

– Brian

Effective communication is an essential component of professional success whether it is at the interpersonal, inter-group, intra- group, organisational or external level.
– Mike Myatt

#1 relationship rule: over communicate.
– Carlos Del Valle

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, ‘I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

– Steven Wright

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every human being is unique and of value

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.
– Stanley Horowitz

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
– Rowan Douglas Williams

The more we elaborate our means of communication,
the less we communicate.
– John Boynton Priestley

The first ingredient in conversation is truth; the next good sense; the third, good humor; and the fourth wit.
– Sir William Temple

Each person’s life is lived as a series of conversations.
– Deborah Tannen

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

– Stephen King

Technology to me does two things: it increases the velocity of communication and increases the number of people who can participate. That’s it. That’s really all technology for our entire history has ever done.
– Jack Dorsey

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

– William Butler Yeats

First learn the meaning of what you say,
and then speak.
– Epictetus

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.
– Bruce Barton

Extremists think ‘communication’ means
agreeing with them.
– Leo Calvin Rosten

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever…. connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.
– C. JoyBell C.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

– Scott Peck

He that converses not, knows nothing.
– English Proverb

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
– John Milton

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
– Horace

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
– Leo Rosten

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

– Earl Wilson

Give me the gift of a listening heart.

– King Solomon

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

– Cervantes

Have something to say, say it, stop talking.
– George Horace Lorimer

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.
– R. C. Trench

Be brief and to-the-point. Always. Everywhere.
– Rosemary O’Neill

Many can argue – not many converse.
– A. Bronson Alcott

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