Quote-ables

I Get Teamwork

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Business publication reporters regularly contact me for comments or input in my narrow-but-deep niches of expertise. Recently, someone asked for some original quotes about teamwork. Hope he liked them:   ‘There is no ‘I’ in ‘team’, but there is a ‘me’. So make me feel welcome, valued and important if I’m on your team.’ ‘There … Read more

More Learning from the Movies

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Last month’s piece about communication-related quotes from the movies generated some buzz and request for more. So … Lights … Camera … Action!’ Knowledge speaks; wisdom listens.’ – Andre Benjamin, ‘Jimi: All is By My side’, 2013. ‘If people only spoke when they had something to say, the human race would lose the power of … Read more

Learn from the Movies

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With Oscar-mania and other movie award shows behind us for another year, let’s see what we can learn about communication from the movies. ‘The secret to talking is listening.’ – Scarlett Johansson, ‘We Bought a Zoo’, 2011 ‘Learning to listen – that takes a lot of discipline.’  – Gary Cole, ‘Forever Strange’, 2008 ‘Rule #1 … Read more

The Power of Words

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‘We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.’ – Abigail Adams, (1744 – 1818), American, wife of President John Adams and mother of President John Quincy Adams. ‘Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.’ – John Fletcher, (1579 … Read more

Learn from Plato

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We can all still learn so much about communicating from Plato, the 4th century BC classic Greek philosopher, mathematician and scientist: ‘The beginning is the most important part of the work.’ ‘Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools speak because they have to say something.’ ‘Those who tell the stories rule society.’ … Read more

19th Century Wisdom

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We can learn a lot from these 19th century authors about communication. ‘Deeds, not words, shall speak me.’ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, playwright and statesman. ‘Speak properly and in as few words as you can, but always plainly.’  William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and politician. ‘… the short words are the best and … Read more

Learn from Celebrities

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We can learn a lot from these 20th century celebrities about communication. ‘The secret of a good speech is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.’ George Burns – comedian and actor. ‘You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of … Read more