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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

Without communication, there is no relationship. Without respect, there is no love. Without trust, there is
no reason to continue.

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

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies – the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.

There’s a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

People change and forget to tell each other.

Between what I think, what I want to say, what I believe I say, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe to hear, what you hear, what you want to understand, what you think you understand, what you understand…They are ten possibilities that we might have some problem communicating. But let’s try anyway…

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.

Since every school in India teaches English, why can’t it be our link language? Why do Tamils have to study English for communication with the world and Hindi for communications within India? Do we need a big door for the big dog and a small door for the small dog? I say, let the small dog use the big door too!

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

If you think communication is all talking, you haven’t been listening.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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

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

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

To learn a thing in life and through doing is much more developing, cultivating, and strengthening than to learn it merely through the verbal communication of ideas.

Effective communication is a key factor in the success of your product.

Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.