Communication
262 quotes: 5 by Keith Craft, 257 from other voices.
Other voices on Communication
- Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
- Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.
- Saying “yes” or “maybe” when we mean no, cheapens our word, diminishes our sense of self-respect, and compromises our integrity.
- Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
- Silence is one great art of conversation.
- Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
- Silence — not dissent — is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.
- Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.
- Smooth your way to the head through the heart. The way of reason is a good one; but it is commonly something longer, and perhaps not so sure.
- Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.
- Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger
- Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.
- Style may be defined, proper words in proper places.
- Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.
- Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.
- Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
- Talking and eloquence are not the same; to speak, and to speak well are two things.
- Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
- The aim of disputation and discussion should not be victory, but improvement.
- The average person is more interested in their own name than in all the other names in the world put together.
- The best rules of rhetoric are, to speak intelligently; speak from the heart; have something to say; say it; and stop when you've done.
- The best way to teach people is by telling a story.
- The better you understand something, the more simply you can express it.
- The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
- The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
- The fact is, I don't like to hear cut-and-dried sermons. No — when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees!
- The first duty of love is to listen.
- The first ingredient in conversation is truth; the next, good sense; the third, good humor; and the fourth, wit.
- The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
- The more urgently you want to speak, the more likely it is that you will say something foolish.
- The more you know, the less you need to say.
- The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
- The most skilful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
- The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.
- The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.Dale CarnegieCommonly attributed
- The only way to tell the truth is to speak it with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
- The pen is mightier than the sword.
- The quality of your life is the quality of your communication.
- The reason why so few persons are agreeable in conversation is that every one thinks more about what he shall say than about what others are saying, and because one cannot well be a good listener when one is eager to speak.
- The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is so we might listen more and talk less.