Communication
262 quotes: 5 by Keith Craft, 257 from other voices.
Keith Craft on Communication
- Care is learning what people need before deciding what you need to say.
- Communication is not a gift you admire. It’s a discipline you develop.
- Communication is not proven by what you said. It is proven by what was understood.
- The bridge between communication and connection is Care.
- When trust is low, communication becomes hard. When care is high, communication becomes healing.
Other voices on Communication
- A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.
- A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.
- A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
- A drop of honey can catch more flies than a gallon of gall.
- A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.
- A man hears only what he understands.
- A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
- A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
- A word unspoken is a sword in the scabbard; a word uttered is a sword in another's hand.
- Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
- Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
- Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.
- Always be radically honest, but use your honesty as a gift not as a weapon. Your honesty should benefit others.
- Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.
- An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
- Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
- As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so it is of small wits to talk much, and say nothing.
- Ask for what you want. You usually won’t get it, and often the rejection will be painful. But when this works, it works surprisingly well.
- Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.
- If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
- Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy; calmness is a great advantage.
- Be hearty in your approbation and lavish with praise.
- Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
- Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
- Before you hold a grudge, hold a conversation.
- Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
- Being honest doesn’t mean being a jerk. Being nice doesn’t mean avoiding the truth.
- Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
- Brevity is in writing what charity is to all the other virtues. Righteousness is worth nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other.
- Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
- Candor is being direct in what you say. Kindness is being considerate in how you say it.
- Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.
- Children will listen to you after they feel listened to.
- Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are: the turbid seem the most profound.
- Commitment is a function of two things: clarity and buy-in.