Jim Rohn Quotes

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.

Learn how to communicate, learn how to speak.

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.

There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications.

I'm a good communicator, and I'm a good translator. I can talk to engineers; I can talk to people for whom technology is not remotely interesting or even maybe scary - things like that.

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.

I've always been very aware of what I'm saying, but I'm also aware of what you're saying. I always want to make sure that my point is clear.

One of the lessons I think nearly all women need to learn, is, that when we are dealing with busy people, no matter how much interested we may be in a subject, we must put what we have to say in the briefest possible form. This is even more important if the person to whom we are talking is listening because of our interest and not because of his own. We may be able to impart some of our enthusiasm to him, if we do not first bore him to death and make him impatient because he is being asked to listen to too many words.

Miss Universe is someone who communicates her thoughts effectively and is able to connect to people.

Being more vocal - I think that's something, as a professional, you have to be really good at. You have to be able to speak your mind.

Scientists are not necessarily the best communicators.

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.

Communications requires study, preparation, and a special attention to truth, goodness and beauty.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man

Communication works for those who work at it.

The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.

There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

Great communicators leave their audiences with great clarity.

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

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.

If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

The art of conversation lies in listening.

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.