Quotes About Communication

When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people.

It's hard for managers to consider different perspectives if they never ask people what they think.

The natural result of utilizing different perspectives is that people are more engaged because they feel their opinions are important.

The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view.

Conflict can be healthy within a collaborative group, as long as everyone sticks to the issues and things don't get personal.

Train leaders in behaviors that promote trust and respect. Bust existing silos and focus on what's best for the project.

Hãy nói n?u b?n có nh?ng l?i l? m?nh hÆ¡n. N?u không, hãy im l?ng.' (_Euripide_)

How little common sense this man (Clay) displays…Oh, that mine enemy would write a book!... Silence would have been to him wisdom.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web in order to help him remember his colleagues at CERN. "The Web is more a social creation than a technical one," he explains.

Rather than the answer, the Internet is actually the central question about our connected twenty-first-century world.

We took 350 billion snaps in 2011 and an astonishing 1.5 trillion in 2013—more than all the photos ever taken before in all of history.

Learning in the moment is difficult. This difficulty occurs because many of the opportunities for learning in counselling and therapy groups are missed as group leaders do not notice what is occurring. A key challenge in group leadership is to notice the significance of what is or what is not being said in a group.

You see.. I have this book. Within the pages of this book are things that I should've told you. I call this book "Hesitation".

You know you're in love when the most interesting conversation you have with the opposite gender is about the one you claim to be in love with.

Alex got angry at me because he said I didn't understand how hard it was. And you know what? He was right. I didn't understand. Not then.

A metaphor has three parts: the object we are trying to describe, the term we use to describe it, and the idea that is conveyed when the two come together. In this, a metaphor is itself a metaphor for the Trinity. In the Trinity, the object we are trying to describe is God the Father, the term we use to describe it is Jesus the Son, and when we grasp that idea, we are filled with the Spirit.

And while he was speaking, did we not feel our hearts burning within us?

She was—I'm not sure how to best describe it—a receiving presence, not a giving one. You talked to her . She listened. Pretty soon, you found you had told her everything about yourself—and you felt better for it too. She had a wonderful soothing way about her. But she hadn't told you anything, nothing at all.

She called out as she ran after them—called out to the child, not the father. She was shy about calling out to the father for some reason.

In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

Oh, by the way, Chuck, I spilled tea on your bongos.

see my work as giving them a voice, a final say. But to do that effectively, you have to learn to stifle the sentiment.

It is not how much we love and appreciate someone, it is how much they know it