To communicate effectively--personally and professionally--it's extremely important to choose your words wisely and really listen
Research has shown that only 7 percent of our communication consists of words--55 percent is attributed to body language and 38 percent to tone of voice. This is what's called the 55/38/7 formula. Knowing how communication works is tremendously useful to anyone, in business and in life.
To communicate effectively--personally and professionally--it's extremely important to choose your words wisely. Words have a way of building people up or tearing them down. In addition, simple and clear words seem to have a greater impact than complicated ones. Said Leonardo da Vinci, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Here's a collection of 27 powerful quotes that will help you become the best communicator you can possibly be.
1. "The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said." Peter Drucker
2. "Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill." Buddha
3. "The pen is the tongue of the mind." Horace
4. "Communication--the human connection--is the key to personal and career success." Paul J. Meyer
5. "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." Hans Hofmann
6. "Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people." Jim Rohn
7. "Most people have to talk so they won’t hear." May Sarton
8. "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 Tracy
9. "Good words are worth much, and cost little." George Herbert
10. "The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate." Joseph Priestley
11. "Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style." Jonathan Swift
12. "First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak." Epictetus
13. "Effective communication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel about what you know." Jim Rohn
14. "There is only one rule for being a good talker--learn to listen." Christopher Morley
15. "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." Robert Frost
16. "To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well." John Marshall
17. "It’s much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what’s important to you about your message and speak from the heart." Nicholas Boothman
18. "Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite." C.S. Lewis
19. "Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow." Lawrence Clark Powell
20. "We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought." Oliver Sacks
21. "It's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." Barack Obama
23. "Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different." Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
24. "Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace." Shannon L. Alder
25. "To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others." Tony Robbins
26. "If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough." Albert Einstein
27. "Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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