Communication Quotes - Page 18

Sometimes, God doesn’t send you into a battle to win it; he sends you to end it.

Lonnie's monotonous speech gives him an advantage, the same advantage foreigners have: his words are not worn out. It is like a code tapped through a wall. Sometimes he asks me straight out: do you love me? and it is possible to tap back: yes, I love you.

Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.

It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

The inner encounters I have with animals—and will be teaching you to have— are exchanges of meaning.

(LBJ) had what a journalist calls “a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.”“Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events.“So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say.

The concern of a team member is also the concern of the team.

Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.

An ancient sage held that in different ages, humans held the senses in different ratios, according to the media by which they communicated and expressed themselves. Hence before writing, the ear was the royal sense. After writing, the eye.

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect.

In sales, every prospect is a potential customer.

A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.

What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship.

Men? They are simple creatures. Is there something wrong with your man? Feed him, and take him to your bed. Et Voila! All problems, they disappear. But if something is wrong with the woman? Je suis désolé. Women need to talk.– André Chevalier

I’m a screwed-up person who no longerknows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter.

Your VISION and your self-willingness is the MOST powerful elements to conquer your goal

The only difference between people who say they cannot perceive interdimensionally and people who consciously communicate interdimensionally is intent and practice. Most people access interdimensional information unconsciously. When they experience conscious contact with a non-human energy, they tend to pass it off as a curiosity or as intuition, or they cancel out the experience as too weird to deal with.

Unwise application of knowledge is dangerous.

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads. The purchase of a book or pamphlet today may result in a subpoena tomorrow. Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall. The subtle, imponderable pressures of the orthodox lay hold. Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike. When the light of publicity may reach any student, any teacher, inquiry will be discouraged. The books and pamphlets that are critical of the administration, that preach an unpopular policy in domestic or foreign affairs, that are in disrepute in the orthodox school of thought will be suspect and subject to investigation. The press and its readers will pay a heavy price in harassment. But that will be minor in comparison with the menace of the shadow which government will cast over literature that does not follow the dominant party line. If the lady from Toledo can be required to disclose what she read yesterday and what she will read tomorrow, fear will take the place of freedom in the libraries, book stores, and homes of the land. Through the harassment of hearings, investigations, reports, and subpoenas government will hold a club over speech and over the p

The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson

The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.

Our visuals must represent the truth and decode the verbal jumble so these children can find the right direction.

It's not how well you communicate, but how intensely you have blended emotions with words that provides hints and triggers audiences mind to decipher and respond without your influence is what matters!

Work always makes a difference.

No matter what we do, each instant contains infinite choices. What we choose to think, to say or to hear creates what we feel in the present moment, it conditions the quality of our communication and in the end the quality of our everyday life. Beliefs and attitudes are made of thoughts. Negative thoughts can be changed and by doing so we create for ourselves more pleasant inner states and have a different impact on the people around us

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.

Never explain yourself to people, just make them feel you.

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

But developing relationships with coworkers—your peers, superiors, and subordinates—is incredibly important, perhaps even the most important thing you’ll do at work, and this is completely dependent on your communication skills.

Notice when negativity spins in your head and disrupt it immediately before it has a chance to take hold and stick.

Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.

Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.

When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information I'm trying to convey) is only one part of it. Another part is stuff about me, the communicator. Everyone knows this. It's a function of the fact there are so many different well-formed ways to say the same basic thing, from e.g. "I was attacked by a bear!" to "Goddamn bear tried to kill me!" to "That ursine juggernaut did essay to sup upon my person!" and so on.

Think about it: send SLASH receive. Email is the frenzied killer of proper communication.

Dining at the rare reasonTo get between the circumstanceAnd start milking the Caesars For what enters the earsAnd is for their eyes to air and advise.

Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you

True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian.

We love those to whom we can tell our story.

The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.

...if the content of your speech is not authentic, talking or texting on a device doesn't mean you're communicating with another person.

The crucial job of artists is to find a way to release materials into the animated middle ground between subjects, and so to initiate the difficult but joyful process of human connection.

Effective, true deep listening and honest dialogue is a gift a soul can choose to give. How easy or difficult that can be depends on the values you hold in your life.

When you have a healthy self-esteem, qualities such as likeability, confidence, trustworthiness, compassion, sense of humor, empathy, and optimism all serve to make you more interesting and successful. But unfortunately, we sometimes get in our own way . . .

Talking to people who are different from us can be radically transformative. It's the antidote to fear.

In order to sell, salespersons have to correctly evaluate and cater to customer choices.

They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.

How beautiful to touch another's soul with a word, a gesture, a thought.

Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.

Some team members act as adhesives to unite the team.

He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart.

We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.

The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.

A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost.

Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.

Understand your audience and you will understand the impact of your message on each follower in your social media networks.

If you are ever feeling lost or unsure of what to do, you can simply retrace the path that brought you there to begin with. Have you ever misplaced something only to find it in short order when you “retraced your steps?” Whether it is an idea, a conversation, or an object, retracing may help you get back on point to re-fortify your position.