Edward R. Murrow Quotes

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.

I spent over 90 percent of my time talking to people who didn’t have to listen to me.

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

Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.

Communication is extremely important in any relationship - it makes the relationship that much healthier.

Different people need different kinds of communication for it to have the same effect. That was something I had to learn.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.