Communication
262 quotes: 5 by Keith Craft, 257 from other voices.
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- Listen if you want to be heard.
- Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.
- Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.
- Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.
- Love begins with listening.
- Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.Dorothy SarnoffCommonly attributed
- Many seek to refute before they seek to understand.
- Maturity is learning how to start when you feel like procrastinating and learning how to listen when you feel like talking.
- Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
- Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly, as when they discuss it freely.
- Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
- Men who have much to say use the fewest words.
- Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
- Most people don’t get those experiences because they never ask. I’ve never found anybody that didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help.
- Most people find fault like there's a reward for it.
- Most people, when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
- My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.
- My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
- Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
- Never be so brief as to become obscure.
- Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
- Never underestimate the power of a good story.
- Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.
- No important truth can be impressed upon the minds of any large number of people by being said only once.
- No mere combination of words can ever take the place of a deep belief in a statement that is expressed with burning enthusiasm.
- One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
- One of the most important rules of the science of manners is an almost absolute silence in regard to yourself.
- One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
- One of the safest and most successful talents I know of is to be a good listener.
- One should use common words to say uncommon things.
- Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in
- People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
- People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
- People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
- Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
- Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their minds.
- Praise in public; criticize in private.
- Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.
- Push with respect, and under the assumption that the other person is probably doing the right thing.
- Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.