Quotes about Communication
always in terms of other people's point of view, and see things from their angle—if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.
— Dale Carnegie
If we know we are going to be rebuked anyhow, isn't it far better to beat the other person to it and do it ourselves? Isn't it much easier to listen to self-criticism than to bear condemnation from alien lips?
— Dale Carnegie
Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.
— Dale Carnegie
have discovered from personal experience that one can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.
— Dale Carnegie
Always make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.
— Dale Carnegie
Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.
— Dale Carnegie
It was said of Emerson that he was always willing to listen to any man, no matter how humble his station, because he felt he could learn something from every man he met.
— Dale Carnegie
Who can resist being around a person who suspends his thoughts in order to value yours?
— Dale Carnegie
Show respect for the other person's opinions. Never say, 'You're wrong.
— Dale Carnegie
Why is it, comedian Lily Tomlin asks, "that when we speak to God we are said to be praying but when God speaks to us we are said to be schizophrenic?" Such a response from ourselves or others to someone's claim to have heard from God is especially likely today because of the lack of specific teaching and pastoral guidance on such matters.
— Dallas Willard
Hearing God cannot be a reliable and intelligible fact of life except when we see his speaking as one aspect of his presence with us, of his life in us. Only our communion with God provides the appropriate context for communications between us and him.
— Dallas Willard
People are meant to live in an ongoing conversation with God, speaking and being spoken to.
— Dallas Willard