Quotes About Communication

Psychopathic workers very often were identified as the source of departmental conflicts, in many cases, purposely setting people up in conflict with each other. "She tells some people one story, and then a totally different story to others.

People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.

May Allah bless you. Or had she said: May Allah burn you? He was not sure which: the two Arabic words sounded so much alike.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

And the too much of my speaking: heaped up round the little crystal dressed in the style of your silence.

Rumpty! he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it meant.

Lizzie had come to understand that Sue's mission in life was to say the things that she, or indeed anyone else, wouldn't or couldn't.

Because men interrupt more often than women do, you need to learn to handle being interrupted rather than allowing the interruption to silence you. Think of an interruption not as a period in a sentence that ends a thought, but as a comma that merely pauses the thought. Your job is to complete the rest of the sentence.

At times, being assertive does involve disagreeing with others; however, that disagreement can be done in a way that is not needlessly confrontational and painful.

If you aren't offending someone occasionally by speaking the truth at work, you are likely too wishy-washy and are coming across as lacking depth or backbone.

Remember: (1) you are there to work and produce, not to find your best friend or to endear yourself to the whole workplace; and (2) the 360-degree Jesus didn't share too much personal information and rarely answered a question directly.

Because Job loved and was honest with God, he was able to stay engaged in their relationship.

Even Jesus gave people a dose of Vitamin No sometimes.

Solomon, in Proverbs, states that "true love cares enough to confront" and that "better is open rebuke than hidden love" (27:5).

Christian Nice Girls, because they fear rejection, tend to get their feelings hurt when other people have good boundaries and say things like, "I'm busy right now. Let's look at next month.

Christian Nice Wives might also bury valid marriage concerns in a misguided attempt to fulfill 1 Peter 3:1–4. They may believe the "gentle and quiet spirit" praised in this passage means that they should muffle their authentic self, as if wives who hide their hearts under a heavy wool blanket please God the most.

acting nice feels natural—so natural that it's hard to detect its hidden, selfish payoff: It allows women to avoid uncomfortable but necessary conflict

Conflict is the price you pay for intimacy. Read that sentence again, and let it sink in. If you want to connect genuinely with other people, you have to risk conflict by being frank and firm in addition to gracious and loving.

Immature people will not receive loving truth, no matter how gently you offer it. You can agonize over what to say, endlessly rehearse your future conversation, and then deliver your pearls of wisdom in a tone more tender than Florence Nightingale—and in the end, it won't help. The immature want what they want, when they want it, and how they want it, even if having what they want damages you.

When you accept delivery on truckloads of disrespectful treatment, you are teaching immature people that they can continue to misuse you.

If you will consistently speak the truth in love and display gracious firmness, you will grow in maturity and find that you are attracting a healthy crop of spiritually mature friends.*

Yes, it's crucial to speak the truth in love, but that doesn't mean that you spill your guts

you will be continually disappointed if you expect your husband to intuitively read your mind so that you don't have to own your own feelings

The Nice Girl Culture teaches [women] not to interrupt other people and to wait to speak until called upon. Unfortunately, these are little-girl behaviors that do not translate into the modern world of work. Women tend to be quieter in meetings where men are present. When they let the men do most of the talking, the men will naturally get most of the credit.