communication Quotes

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.