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.

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

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary, so that the necessary may speak.

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.

Most people have to talk so they won’t hear.

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.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style.

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

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

There is only one rule for being a good talker--learn to listen.

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.

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

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.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

It's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.

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.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

If the Pacific took Nauru, it'd wash away one of the strangest and most troubled places on Earth.

The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Keep being yourself inside you. Keep visualizing what you are aiming for in life. Be patient and know that you will get what you want one day.

I believe that everything happens for a reason but I think its important to seek out that reason thats how we learn.

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

The amusing thing about 'X-Force' is that it was highly rated - and hated - in about equal measure, Which suited me just fine. If no-one's feathers were a little ruffled, we probably wouldn't have been doing our jobs right.

All we need to do is learn not to be afraid of pain. Grit your teeth and let it hurt. Dont deny it dont be overwhelmed by it. It will not last forever. One day the pain will be gone and you will still be there.

I've become one of those women who thrusts her engagement finger out all the time.

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

The Obama administration has framed its defense of the controversial bulk collection of all American phone records as necessary to prevent a future 9/11.

Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth

I don't drink Pellegrino and Perrier, but my nieces and nephews do.

Modern society is a biological disaster masquerading as progress.

He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.

Time management is life managemnent.

Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important.

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.