Quotes about Communication

expositional listening benefits the gathered congregation.

Christians possess a shallow understanding of the gospel as a result of years of hearing short "gospel presentations" tacked onto the ends of sermons. Still others who know the message of Christ find themselves feeling awkward and incapable of sharing the good news clearly with family and friends. Taking steps to be sure we know the gospel with some clarity and depth, then, is necessary.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.

training in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought to count in the effect on his fellow men.

Gradually, however, I was forced to abandon the effort to persuade them to come my way, and then I achieved results only by appealing over the heads of the Senate and House leaders to the people, who were the masters of both of us.

Our own life has to be our message.

But why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience?

No man can safely speak, unless he who would gladly remain silent.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct historical shadows to the generation immediately following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.