Communication
262 quotes: 5 by Keith Craft, 257 from other voices.
Other voices on Communication
- If a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and authorcraft are of small amount to that.
- If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
- If a crooked stick is before us, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.
- If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble; and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.
- If a man really has an idea he can communicate it; and if he has a clear one, he will communicate it clearly.
- If any one tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, do not make excuse about what is said of you, but answer: "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone."
- If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
- If people don't weigh in, they can't buy in.
- If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
- If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.
- If you are upset, wait until you are not upset to communicate that you are upset.
- If you can think and speak and write, you are absolutely deadly, nothing can get in your way.
- If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.
- If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
- If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
- If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
- If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
- If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.Jim RohnCommonly attributed
- If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.
- If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.
- If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.
- If you wish to please people, you must begin by understanding them.
- If you’re not listening, you’re not learning.
- In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them, may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.
- It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex, as to convince an opponent.
- It is as easy to call back a stone thrown from the hand, as to call back the word that is spoken.
- It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
- It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.Benjamin DisraeliSourced
- It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- It is with a word as with an arrow: the arrow once loosed does not return to the bow; nor a word to the lips.
- It takes a great man to make a good listener.
- It takes two to speak truth--one to speak and another to hear.
- I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.
- Just a kind word and a yielding manner, and anger and complaining may be avoided.
- Kindness is a language the dumb can speak, and the deaf can hear and understand.
- Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
- Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.
- Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.
- Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
- Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.