Quotes About Communication

La disciplina efectiva depende de una relación afectuosa y respetuosa entre el adulto y el niño. La disciplina no debe incluir nunca amenazas ni humillaciones, provocar daño físico, asustar ni hacer que los niños sientan que el adulto es un enemigo. La disciplina ha de transmitir sensación de seguridad y cariño a todos los implicados.

This type of left-brain, logical response would hit an unreceptive right-brain brick wall and create a gulf between them. After all, his logical left brain was nowhere to be found at that moment. So, had Tina responded with her left, her son would have felt like she didn't understand him or care about his feelings. He was in a right-brain, nonrational, emotional flood, and a left-brain response would have been a lose-lose approach.

By connecting with him, right brain to right brain, she was able to communicate that she was tuned in to how he was feeling. Even if he was stalling, this right-brain response was the most effective approach, since it let her not only meet his need for connection, but also redirect him to bed more quickly.

Y si hacemos hincapié en lo positivo? En vez de «Basta de lloriqueos», podríamos decir algo como: «Me gusta más cuando hablas con tu voz normal, ¿puedes repetir eso?» O ser incluso más directo en la enseñanza de la comunicación efectiva: «Pídemelo otra vez, pero con tu voz fuerte de chico mayor.»

personal information rarely belongs to just one individual; it is often formed in relationships with others.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

a stable relationship requires that good interactions outnumber bad interactions by at least 5 to 1.

Indeed, there is evidence that people are more likely to be influenced by empty persuasive messages, such as commercials, when they are tired and depleted.

The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.

My advice to students when I taught negotiations was that if you think the other side has made an outrageous proposal, you should not come back with an equally outrageous counteroffer, creating a gap that will be difficult to bridge in further negotiations. Instead you should make a scene, storm out or threaten to do so, and make it clear—to yourself as well as to the other side—that you will not continue the negotiation with that number on the table.

Ultimately, a richer language is essential to the skill of constructive criticism.

In a negotiation situation, for instance, good mood helps. People in a good mood are more cooperative and elicit reciprocation. They tend to end up with better results than do unhappy negotiators.

frequency of lovemaking minus frequency of quarrels

We were sufficiently similar to understand each other easily, and sufficiently different to surprise each other. We

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.

My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.

My first husband is a lovely, lovely man, but he always viewed my job as a hobby, and there came a time where I resented that.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

The space between the television set and the viewer is holy ground.

When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.