Quotes about Communication
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
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.
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
The problem with communication ... is the illusion that it has been accomplished.
[I]t is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.
One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
When we have the courage to speak out
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
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.
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
The problem with communication ... is the illusion that it has been accomplished.
[I]t is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.
One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
When we have the courage to speak out
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.