Quotes about Communication

You can't keep quiet about anything that's going on in the world, unless you're a monk. Sorry, monks! I didn't mean it!

LISTEN twice as much as you speak.

To become a collaborative team player... Think win-win-win. King Solomon of ancient Israel observed, "Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." Usually when you collaborate with others, you win, they win, and the team wins. Find someone on the team with a similar role whom you have previously seen as a competitor. Figure out ways you can share information and work together to benefit both you and the team.

From his lips/not words alone pleased her.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

When asked to spell Mississippi the boy asked "The river or the state?"

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

You don't have to say everything to say something.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.