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If
you start a conversation with the assumption
that you are right or that you must win, obviously
it is difficult to talk.
~ Wendell
Berry
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It
seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated
communication, we often suffer from a shortage of
listeners.
-- Erma Bombeck
Listening,
not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers
They
may forget what you said, but they will never forget
how you made them feel.
-- Carl W. Buechner
The
only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid
it.
-- Dale Carnegie
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing
with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
-- Dale Carnegie
"There
are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have
contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified
by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what
we say, and how we say it."
-- Dale Carnegie
Courage
is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is
also what it takes to sit down and listen.
-- Winston Churchill
The
reality today is that we are all interdependent
and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore,
the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving
differences and clashes of interests, whether
between individuals or nations, is through dialogue.
- The
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Two
monologues do not make a dialogue.
--Jeff Daly
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.
-- John
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"The
most important thing in communication is to hear what
isn't being said."
-- Peter F. Drucker
We
have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen
twice as much as we speak.”
-- Epictetus
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they
are both right.
-- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
If there is any great secret of success in life, it
lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person’s
place and to see things from his point of view – as
well as your own.
-- Henry Ford
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Remember
not only to say the right thing in the right place,
but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid
the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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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.
-- Edwin H. Friedman
No
one would talk much in society if they knew how often
they misunderstood others.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Many
attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too
much.
-- Robert Greeleaf
There
are men who would quickly love each other if once
they were speak to each other; for when they spoke
they would discover that their souls had only separated
by phantoms and delusions.
-- Ernest Hello
When
people talk, listen completely. Most people never
listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway
"Without
mutual knowledge there can be no mutual understanding;
without understanding, there can be no trust and respect;
without trust, there can be no peace, only the danger
of conflict. This means we have to be willing and
able to familiarize ourselves with the way people
of other cultures think and perceive the world around
them, but without losing our own standpoint in the
process."
-- Roman Herzog, President of Germany
There
are men who would quickly love each other if once
they were speak to each other; for when they spoke
they would discover that their souls had only separated
by phantoms and delusions.
-- Ernest Hello
Speak
clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before
you let it fall.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
It
is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the
privilege of wisdom to listen.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
A
world community can exist only with world communication,
which means something more than extensive short-wave
facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means
common understanding, a common tradition, common
ideas, and common ideals.
-- Robert
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The
relationship is the communication bridge between people.
-- Alfred Kadushin
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I
am in favor of increased communication and cooperation
between countries, but it is more important
that each country becomes responsible for its
own actions, its own communities, its own economies,
before starting to integrate in large regional
or global supranational organizations.
-- David
Korten
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The
trouble with talking too fast is you may say something
you haven't thought of yet.
-- Ann Landers
"The
reason why so few people are agreeable in conversations
is that each is thinking more about what he intends
to say than about what others are saying, and we never
listen when we are eager to speak."
-- Francois La Rochefoucauld
"There
cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another
in the current of his discourse."
-- John Locke
“To
listen well is as powerful a means of communication
and influence as to talk well”
-- John Marshall
We
come to know ourselves, then, through coming to know
each other. And the deeper that knowledge, the richer
and more creative the world we build together."
-- Danny Martin, Director of ICRE (International Communities
for the Renewal of the Earth)
Communication
leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy
and mutual valuing.
-- Rollo May
You
cannot truly listen to anyone and do anyting else
at the same time.
-- M.
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“Communication
works for those who work at it.”
-- John Powell
"The
genius of communication is the ability to be both
totally honest and totally kind at the same time."
-- John Powell
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….
A loving silence often has far more power to heal
and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
-- Rachel Naomi Remen
“To
effectively communicate, we must realize that we are
all different in the way we perceive the world and
use this understanding as a guide to our communication
with others.”
-- Anthony Robbins
“The
way we communicate with others and with ourselves
ultimately determines the quality of our lives”
-- Anthony Robbins
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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
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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
When
we have the courage to speak out – to break our silence
– we inspire the rest of the "moderates" in our communities
to speak up and voice their views.
-- Sharon Schuster
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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.
-- Margaret
Chase Smith
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Give
me the gift of a listening heart.
-- King Solomon
"Make
a distinction between the person and their opinions—opinions
are like clothes, a matter of taste and fashion that
can be changed at will. Don't mistake them for the
essential core."
- Mark Somner
“Deep
listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker.
When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging,
intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.”
-- Sue Patton Thoele
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
We
shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as
potential causes of war until communication is permitted
to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
-- Harry S. Truman
If
you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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"The
whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold
counsel with one another, so as not to depend
upon the understanding of one man."
-- Woodrow
Wilson
The
ear of the leader must ring with the voices
of the people.
-- Woodrow
Wilson
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“Think
like a wise man but communicate in the language of
the people.”
-- William Butler Yeats
