Communication
262 quotes: 5 by Keith Craft, 257 from other voices.
Other voices on Communication
- Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
- When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
- When our friends are present, we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
- When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen.
- When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.Ernest HemingwaySourced
- When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it is a clear proof that it should be rejected.
- When we have to reply to some one who speaks harshly to us, we must always do it with gentleness. If we are angry, it is better to keep silence.
- When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
- When will talkers refrain from evil-speaking? When listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
- When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
- When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.
- Win through your actions, never through argument.
- Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
- Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
- With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind, and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.
- Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.
- You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.Lee IacoccaCommonly attributed
- You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
- You don’t have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.
- You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- You listen with interest. That gives some sense of confidence to the speaker.
- You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.