Quotes About Communication

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Speak only when you feel that your words are better than your Silence. Hovsep kazezian www.Hkazezian.com

There's a message in the way a person treats you. Hovsep Kazezian www.Hkazezian.com

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

He loved to be among people and talk to them, find out what they had done and what they believed in. He felt that everybody was a traveler on the same journey, and a person should be interested in what others had learned along the way. But the Public was a different matter. The Public was too delicate, too selfish and selfabsorbed, a loud collective Voice clamoring with complaints, demanding attention.

I think that if one is seeking to build a truly satisfying relationship, the best way of bringing this about is to get to know the deeper nature of the person and relate to her or him on that level, instead of merely on the basis of superficial characteristics.

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

It is important for leaders to know their stories; to get them straight; to communicate them effectively, particularly to those who are in the thrall of rival stories; and, above all, to embody in their lives the stories that they tell.

would have died there. Right there. And she didn't say anything. She didn't even cry at first. She just handed the letter to Pop, and he read it, and then he put his head down on the table and began to cry.

I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort.

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

CHANGING MINDS THROUGH REPRESENTATIONAL REDESCRIPTION

Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal

When Einstein had thought through a problem, he always found it necessary to formulate this subject in as many different ways as possible and to present it so that it would be comprehensible to people accustomed to different modes of thought and with different educational preparations.

The less a person understands his own feelings, the more he will fall prey to them. The less a person understands the feelings, the responses, and the behavior of others, the more likely he will interact inappropriately with them and therefore fail to secure his proper place in the world.

A great marriage is predicted not so much by your finding the right partner as by your being the right partner.

Negative interpretations are a good example of mind reading. Mind reading occurs when you assume you know what your partner is thinking or why he or she did something. When you mind-read positively, it does not tend to cause any harm. But when your mind reading includes negative judgments about the thoughts and motives of the other, you may be heading toward real trouble in your marriage.

Do you ask 'Nu' of? Or do you ask, transitively? 'Nu?' he asked. And is it even a question in the accepted sense? 'Nu,' he said. Would that have been better? Nu, meaning how are things with you, but also I know how things are with you.

to bar communication between intellectuals, who are always our best hope of peace, is particularly self-defeating and inane. It declares, inter alia, that we have a) made up our minds about what we think, b) closed our minds to what others think, and c) chosen to go on hearing nothing with which we happen to disagree.

I exaggerate but only to revive the dying art of hyperbole.

It is from his grandmother that Henry learns that punctuation can be a weapon. With a comma you can hurt someone.

He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages will be known, far and wide, as a smart-ass.

In a letter to the editor of the (now, sadly, defunct) magazine The Sciences (vol. 35