The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication Quotes

“A master of clarity was wartime British prime minister Winston Churchill. He put painstaking effort into his speeches. He once claimed he would spend an hour working on a single minute of a speech.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“The reward for digging into complex problems and ideas and coming out the other side with a simple way to express them is turning muddled teaching into crystal clear communication. Physicist Albert Einstein has been quoted as saying, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“someone said, “Experience is the best teacher.” Not only is that not helpful, it isn’t true. If experience were the best teacher, everyone who got older would get better. But they don’t. Experience is the best teacher only if you evaluate it, learn from it, and apply the lessons to your life!”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“Louis L’Amour, the highly prolific bestselling author of Western novels, gave this advice to writers: “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“It’s one thing to communicate to people because you have something valuable to say. It’s another to communicate with people because you believe they have value. That is the audience perspective you want to possess. There is no audience, however small, that is insignificant—only speakers who think so. I”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“People want to be engaged, inspired, instructed, and entertained! To become the best version of yourself as a communicator, you must start with your strengths, use your talent, and add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. Those factors will become multipliers to your communication.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“What happens when we don’t leverage our strengths for success? We end up trying to improve our weaknesses. But that’s ultimately a lost cause.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“If you want to become a great communicator, you need to focus on the people in your audience and give them your best every time you deliver a message. And never forget: communicators know it’s all about others. That’s the Law of Connecting.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“To be people of value, we must have confidence in ourselves. To value people, we must have confidence in others. To add value to people, we must have confidence in service.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“Abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher said, “Did you never see a person whose coming into a room was like the bringing of a lamp there?… Their lives are so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearing, that you instinctively feel, in their presence, that they do you good.”78 I believe what Beecher was describing is charismatic confidence. That kind of confidence is contagious.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“When you walk into a room and greet others, which phrase best expresses your thinking: “Here I am” or “There you are”? People who give others 100 percent of their attention radiate charisma. They make others feel like they are the only other person in the world. They are present. Having interest in others is irresistible.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“The word communication itself hints at the importance of finding common ground when speaking to others. Communicate comes from the Latin word communicatus, meaning “to impart, share” or literally “to make common.”77 To connect, we need to establish commonality. The greater the commonality, the greater the potential for effective communication.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“No matter how good you are or how important your message is, you must remind yourself that you’re not the main attraction. That understanding opens the door to connecting with people. You’re not there to impress them or to raise yourself up, increasing the distance between you and them. Your goal should be to close the distance.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“If you desire to communicate with others, then you must learn to connect. Connecting is job number one whether you’re talking with one person, speaking to a group, or communicating to a crowd.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“people do not care how much you know until they know how much you care. If you want to get through, you must connect. If you can connect and have great content, it will be a home run!”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“Until you connect with people, there will be a barrier between you and them. No matter how good your content is, people will not receive it as well as they would if you connected first. Without connection, they may be interested, but they will not be inspired.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“When you listen to someone talk to others, you know immediately what they value: themselves, their content, or their audience. People who focus on themselves seek to gain attention. Speakers who focus on content give out information. Communicators who focus on others make a connection.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“To remain relevant and relatable, learn something new every day. Keep researching and exploring. Keep asking questions. Live new experiences. Read and file content every day. Love what you do. And always update any lesson you intend to teach more than once. Your content will keep getting better only if you keep getting better. If you’re continually growing, you will never run out of content, and you will always have something worth saying.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“In any presentation, we say a lot of words. Most are heard and soon forgotten. However, if you intentionally work to create echo statements in your communication, your listeners will feel your speech as well as hear it, and they will remember parts of it long after you’re done speaking.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“Every message is like an airplane flight. To get somewhere, it has to take off and it has to land.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“Your thesis is the main thought, expressed in a single statement, that contains the essence of your message. Every time you intend to communicate through speaking or writing, you should identify your thesis. The hardest people to follow are communicators who are searching for their core idea as they deliver their message.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“Robert Frost said, “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.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“As you prepare a message, always start with finding out who your audience is and considering your subject from their point of view.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“When you don’t know your audience or don’t craft your content to fit them, you’re in danger of losing them,”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“Ideas are birthed during times of collaboration. Ideas are proven during times of action. Ideas are improved during times of reflection.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“As Romanian-born artist Albert Szent-Györgyi said, “Creativity is to see what everybody has seen and to think what nobody has thought.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you’ve done what you are expected to do.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“mathematicians discount any statistics that lack necessary frequency. For example, if you flip a coin ten times, you will rarely experience a 50-50 split between heads and tails. However, if you flip a coin a hundred times, it’s usually pretty close. The same is true with speaking. You can’t do it once, twice, or a dozen times and know whether you have talent. You can’t measure your potential at that stage. You need to get in your reps.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“As author Malcolm Gladwell pointed out, “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message

“If you hold yourself to a high standard when you speak, you will keep getting better.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message