Communication
- Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence.--Deborah Tannen (You Just Don't Understand)
- A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.--Truman Capote (Music for Chameleons)
- Couples who love each other can communicate a thousand things without ever once talking.--Chinese proverb
- ... everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.--Brenda Ueland
- Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.--Virginia Satir
- The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, "Me, too!" versus "So what?"--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine January 28, 2003)
- Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.--Anne Morrow Lindbergh ("Argonauta" Gift From the Sea)
- A gossip is one who talks to you about other people. A bore is one who talks to you about himself. And a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.--William King
- Have something to say, say it, stop talking.--George Horace Lorimer
- He says, "You're always late."
She says, "You're always rushing me."
One point for him.
One point for her.
Total score: zero.--Michael P. Nichols (The Lost Art of Listening)
- I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.--Rumi
- I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention And especially if it's given from the heart. When people are talking, there's no need to do anything but receive them. Just take them in. Listen to what they're saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it. Most of us don't value ourselves or our love enough to know this.--Rachel Naomi Remen (Kitchen Table Wisdom)
- I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter how worthy the message of something, if it's dull, you're just not communicating.--Poul Anderson
- Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.--Emily Post
- Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.--Caterina Rando
- Information voids will be filled by rumors and speculation unless they are preempted by open, credible and trustworthy communication. Pull no punches. When you know an answer, give it. When you don't, say so. When you're guessing, admit it. But don't stop communication.--Jean B. Keffeler
- It is easier to communicate with spirits than for one university department to communicate with another.--G. Wilson Knight (Neglected Powers)
- It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.--Erma Bombeck (If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?)
- Life is worth being lived, but not being discussed all the time.--Isabelle Adjani
- Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.--Carl Jung
- A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.--Barry Neil Kaufman
- The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.--J. B. Priestly ("Televiewing" Thoughts in the Wilderness)
- The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.-–Peter Drucker
- The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.--Stephen King
- The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.--Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.--Fyodor Dostoyevsky ("Critical Articles" Complete Collected Works)
- My favorite single line from the Qur’an is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that we may come to know one another, in the sense that diversity is holy and it was created by God. What we humans are meant to do with that diversity is engage in positive interaction with each other and come to know one another – because knowledge is holy and pluralism or positive engagement is holy.--Eboo Patel (in The Jesus Fatah)
- Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.--Virginia Satir (Peoplemaking)
- Our most common way of talking is telling: asserting the truth about the way things are and must be, not allowing that there might be other truths and possibilities. And our most common way of listening is not listening: listening only to our own talking, not to others.--Adam Kahane (Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities)
- Precision of communication is important, more important than ever in our era of hair-trigger balances, when a false, or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.--James Thurber ("Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ear Muffs" Lanterns and Lances)
- Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.--Joseph Pulitzer
- The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.--Mark Twain (Mark Twain's Speeches ed. by Paine)
- Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.--Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
- There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.--Carl Van Vechten (The Blind Bow-Boy)
- There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.--William Butler Yeats
- To commiserate is sometimes more than to give; for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.--William Mountford
- Too much agreement kills a chat.--Eldridge Cleaver ("A Day in Folsom Prison" Soul on Ice)
- Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Worship" The Conduct of Life)
- The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentation, doubt and poison.--Parkinson's Law
- We have an obligation to use the language. To push ourselves: to find out what words mean and how to deploy them, to communicate clearly, to say what we mean.--Neil Gaiman
- We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.--Eleanor Roosevelt (in The New York Times, 1960)
- When we clearly understand that there is no superior sex or superior race, we will have opened the door of communication and laid the foundation for building winning relationships with all people in this global world of ours.--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
- When we talk about spirituality, we talk about what we share. I think when we talk about religion, we talk about how we are different in expressing that spirituality.--Rabbi Sandy Sasso (Speaking of Faith interview, April 4. 2008)
- You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine 10/13/03)
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