Quotes About Communication

Please ask for payments as needed from time to time, not all at once.

Davison had an uncanny gift in sensing the proper moment for changing the topic, for giving the discussion a timely new turn, thus avoiding a clash or deadlock.

So why did Rockefeller stick to his self-defeating silence?

he listened closely to what people said and filed away as much information as he could, repeating valuable information to himself until it was memorized.

But the moves reflected a new wish to shape opinion

As his parents broke silence and confided their concerns, Junior's heart sagged:

We must not press him for money.

If we have done anything wrong," said Pierpont, "send your man to my man and they can fix it up.

For legal reasons, everyone was cautioned not to exchange thoughts on paper.)

He also excelled as a debater, demonstrating that beneath his reserved manner he could articulate his thoughts forcefully.

Grant was peppered with conflicting reports from white Democrats and black Republicans in Mississippi, who seemed to reside on different planets. One white complained to Grant about "ignorant

Washington was taciturn, once advising his adopted grandson, "It is best to be silent, for there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

Johnson tried to persuade Rockefeller that these skills would serve him well in golf.

John had always confided in her about business and in 1893 was still sending her detailed reports about Mesabi ore.

About to enter into his second marriage, Bill must have been drastically scaling back on first-family expenditures, albeit without disclosing the reason for the sudden urgency.

With me it has always been a maxim rather to let my designs appear from my works than by my expressions.

Jack wrote his mother how things couldn't proceed in New York in Pierpont's absence.

Rockefeller trained himself to reveal as little as possible, even in private letters, which he wrote as if they might someday fall into the hands of a prosecuting attorney.

Your speech at the First Presbyterian Church has caused me a great deal of annoyance.

What I fear is that he may perhaps talk too much which would be very undesirable

George Washington was always the maestro of eloquent silences.

a way of building tension and softening up the parties.

by saying little, he underscored his position as honest broker and permitted the antagonists to vent their anger.

While here, Grant goes out to the very front, is under fire for hours together, and at the same time he receives despatches from Sherman a thousand miles away, and directs the movements of his army at Atlanta, of another in Louisiana, of the forces at Mobile; and smokes his cigar in calm and quiet all the while," he informed Edwin Booth.