The pen is the tongue of the mind.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance.

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.

None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.

Only you can determine your choice of attitude. Choose wisely choose carefully choose confidently

I don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.'

You might be the best Hamlet of your generation in the bathroom, but unfortunately, you have to come out and do it on stage, and it's best to do it to people who would fill the house.

Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly the more it is dehumanized the more completely it succeeds in eliminating from business love hatred and all purely personal irrational and emotional elements which escape calculation.

Golf isnt like other sports where you can take a player out if hes having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.

In the end there doesnt have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person not just an employee are more productive more satisfied more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers which leads to profitability.

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

You know, Republicans should have a consistent philosophy. And if your philosophy is about limited government and not intruding in people's lives, you shouldn't just inconveniently take a social issue like gay marriage and say, 'Well, unless we think - actually we should be intruding your life.'

I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.'

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

The ultimate goal in Karate is to defeat opponents in a real life-or-death situation.