Quotes About Communication

Barry's of a mind it's better to be silent and presumed a fool than to open your mouth and remove doubt altogether.

IF YOU HAVE TO HIDE YOUR TRUE FEELINGS FROM YOUR FRIENDS, THEY'RE NOT YOUR FRIENDS.

Check that - I've found the end. Nick, please be kind enough to withdraw your head to a reasonable distance from my hindquarters.' -Ajay

West," said Coach Jericho. "That's me," said Will, raising his hand slightly. "That's him," said Nick, pointing. "That's helpful," said Jericho.

Language is intrinsically political, as how we talk about something conditions how we think about it,

If you want to change your stereotypes, seek first-hand experience. Do not believe everything you are told. Find out for yourself. Talk

she needed someone to hold her, but she couldn't bring herself to ask her husband, not after what she had done to him.

Are we rich?" "We're comfortable." He sometimes said things like that instead of yes or no. That's how lawyers answer questions.

Anyone answer your ad?

Ben had kept up with his son all this time. But his son had never returned his calls or come to visit, convinced that at his age he no longer needed a father. He was wrong.

even buying a user's manual—The Female Orgasm—and learned to his dismay that writing twenty-five thousand lines of code was cake compared to bringing a full-grown female to orgasm.

Why didn't women come with a freaking Error Message box?

Frank nodded at him.

Life is about family and technology.

One absolutely crucial element in moving your brain from panic to logic is to put words to what you're feeling at each stage.

To strengthen your interpersonal influence, don't win arguments. Instead, win hearts and minds.

I need to talk to you about something. I was so busy feeling upset with you and then acting impatient and irritated that I stepped on your toes instead of walking in your shoes. When I stopped to do that, I thought if I were you, I'd feel frustrated (scared, angry, etc.). Is that true?

Mark Twain once said, "Most conversations are monologues in the presence of witnesses.

These elements of the Side-by-Side approach—asking questions during a shared moment, and then deepening the conversation with more questions—are as powerful as communication gets: so powerful that they form the core of the Socratic Method. Socrates never told anybody anything; he just walked around town with people asking them questions until they figured out the answers themselves, and in the process he helped create Western civilization.

Understanding a person's hunger and responding to it is one of the most potent tools you'll ever discover for getting through to anyone you meet in business or your personal life.

In this situation, your success hinges entirely on talking the person up from reptile to mammal to human brain

If someone can't or won't listen to you, get him to listen to himself.

Questioning works better than telling. That's why Will didn't tell Evan, "Don't let your friends get you into trouble." Instead, he asked questions that made Evan think, "Who's likely to get into trouble, and what should I do if it happens?" In other words, Will didn't talk down to Evan, or talk at him. Instead, the two talked side by side emotionally as well as physically.

anger and empathy—like matter and antimatter—can't exist in the same place at the same time. Let one in, and you have to let the other one go. So when you shift a blamer into empathy, you stop the person's angry ranting dead in its tracks.