Communication
262 quotes: 5 by Keith Craft, 257 from other voices.
Other voices on Communication
- Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
- Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; it is also what it takes, on occasion, to sit down and listen.
- Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
- Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.
- Criticize by category, praise by name.
- Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them.
- Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.
- Don’t be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think.
- Don’t give orders and try to be followed; try to be understood and to understand others by getting in sync.
- Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.John C. MaxwellCommonly attributed
- Either be silent, or say something better than silence.
- Eloquence is logic on fire.
- Eloquence is the transference of thought and emotion from one heart to another, no matter how it is done.
- Embrace confident humility: argue like you're right, listen like you're wrong.
- Enthusiasm gives wings to our words, thrust to our thoughts, and momentum to our message.
- False eloquence is exaggeration, true eloquence is emphasis.
- Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions.
- Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion.
- Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible, and some time after the offence, rather than at the time.
- First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Gentle words, quiet words, are, after all, the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
- Get a feedback loop and listen to it. … When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
- Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice: Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgement.
- Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any, but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
- Great leaders know that listening to others is much more important than asserting their authority. Quiet your thoughts and listen to others with an open mind.
- Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly, and in a spirit of love.
- Have something to say; say it; and stop when you’ve done.
- He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that reason is weak.
- He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases when he has no more to say, is in possession of some of the best requisites of conversation.
- Hear one side, and you will be in the dark; hear both, and all will be clear.
- Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.
- Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
- Hypocrisy is when your actions fail to live up to your words. Integrity is when your actions guide your choice of words.
- I am for frank explanations with friends in cases of affronts. They sometimes save a perishing friendship, and even place it on a firmer basis than at first; but secret discontent must always end badly.
- I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.
- I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. The realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
- I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
- I never learned anything when I was talking.
- I quote others only the better to express myself.
- I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.