Quotes About Communication

Confidence spark Try this the next time you receive feedback and find yourself getting defensive. Take a few deep breaths and repeat back what has been said to show that you have understood. Doing this will give you a little distance from reacting in a way you might regret. Later on you can reflect on what fits and what doesn't. If you need support, get input from a trusted colleague.

Should I work on it or let it go?" Debbie also encourages her supervisors to talk candidly about areas she needs to develop. She asks for feedback directly if it is not being given. She tells them, "It's nice to know that there are good things that I'm doing, but that doesn't help me improve. Please share with me something that will give me an opportunity to grow.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

Any business with customers is in the "people" business.

You are what you write.

Next, think about likely questions or interruptions, and rehearse your responses. Then think of additional questions or interruptions, and how you would handle them.

If you're preparing for a presentation, challenge yourself to make your points coherently in a shorter-than-expected time frame. Add more pressure to your practice by handicapping yourself—no notes and a blaring television.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.

Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.

Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

Et mi-rêvant, je ne sais guère Si c'est moi qui t'écris, ou toi…

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

En ce point est quelque chose de simple, d'infiniment simple, de si extraordinairement simple que le philosophe n'a jamais réussi à le dire. Et c'est pourquoi il a parlé toute sa vie.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

il a commencé à sortir tout un paquet de grandes phrases qui résonnaient sous la voûte, et qui semblaient n'avoir ni queue ni tête, sauf qu'elles avaient bien la queue et la tête et qu'elles voulaient dire toute la colère et la tristesse qu'Oscar avait à l'intérieur de lui […].

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul