Quotes about Communication

As the rudder controls a ship, so the tongue controls a person.

He said the best contract lawyers were the ones who heard the unspoken. The hopes and dreams and fears that both sides held, sometimes so tightly they didn't even know it themselves. A good contract attorney has to be a mediator first and foremost. And the best mediator is someone who can translate conflicting emotions into some form of harmony. But to do that, they have to look beneath the surface. See the unseen. Hear the unspoken.

You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.

We have all said things in anger in a moment that we don't mean.

Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul would'st reach! It needs the overflow of heart To give the lips full speech. Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.

Study the Speakers, Not the Sermons

And suddenly I realized that this too was a message, a last wordless communication among neighbors. For I, too, had a hiding place when things were bad. Jesus was this place, the Rock cleft for me. I pressed a finger to the tiny crevice.

Books do not age as you or I do, they will speak on to generations we will never see.

Every family possesses at least one off-the-charts challenging person. If you're tempted to tell me that yours doesn't, then I hate to be the one to break it to you, but maybe you are the one!

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. — Martin Luther King Jr.

How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.

Each time you think something good, speak it. Never rob someone of the blessings of an unspoken treasure.