Communication Problems Quotes

• Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.

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  John Rosemond

  Communication   Deceit   Four  

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• Removed from its more restrictive sense, masturbation has become an expression for everything that has proved, for lack of human contact, to be void of meaning. We have communication problems, suffer from egocentrism and narcissism, are frustrated by information glut and loss of environment; we stagnate despite the rising GNP.

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  Gunter Grass

  Communication   Loss   Expression  

  4052

• The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

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  Edward R. Murrow

  Communication   Technology   Language  

  On receiving the "Family of Man" Award, 1964.

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

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  Jim Rohn

  Life   Motivational   Confidence  

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 18, 2016

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• The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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  George Bernard Shaw

  Relationship   Sarcastic   Funny Inspirational  

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• If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.

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  Story Musgrave

  Communication   Numbers   Priorities  

  Academy of Archievment interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Try saying this: 'What's true for me today is that I have angry feelings concerning what I heard you say when you said what you said. It reminds me of what my mother said when she said what she said, and that hurts me so that's where I'm at with this, and it's not all right with me for today.' This should help to avoid a lot of communication problems.

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  Judith Stone

  Mother   Hurt   Communication  

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• A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed.

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  John Cleese

  Funny   Sarcastic   Should Have  

  John Cleese, Connie Booth (2001). “The Complete Fawlty Towers”, p.164, Da Capo Press

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• Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.

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  Ivan Chermayeff

  Communication   Common Sense   Design  

  1381

• Most of the time when there's a communication problem, it's because the message being received is not the message you want. It's not that they don't know what they need to do, how we need to act as a team, whatever. If you don't like the message, then you go say there's a communication problem.

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  Mike D'Antoni

  Team   Communication   Needs  

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• Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation that you don't want to have.

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  Gay Hendricks

  Communication   Want   Problem  

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• Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

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  Susanna Kaysen

  Communication   Two   Problem  

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