Quotes About Communication

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

Good salespeople use questions to learn something about their buyers.

I have learned through years of sales and consulting that there are two types of relationships: superficial and substantive.

salespeople who understand that the key to achieving success is establishing real value in the eyes of the customer.

By allowing the prospective client to express his aggravations, a salesperson creates an opportunity in which the client realizes the need for change and seeks out the salesperson to provide a solution.

At the most basic level, this book shows you how to ask questions that will get your customers talking.

Salespeople are often afraid to let their customers talk. They fear that if a customer takes the conversation in the wrong direction, they will lose control and ultimately lose the sale.

the real is actually the intersubjective meaning arrived at by a community in semiosis. One

I greatly appreciate the work of Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga. He has observed that many academicians have a disdain for the term popularizer. However, he urges Christian philosophers not to leave their work "buried away in professional journals" but to make it available to the broader Christian community. If they don't connect their work to the life of the church, then they "neglect a crucial and central part of their task as believing philosophers.

A cat probably doesn't say to himself, 'Where did I go wrong? Why wasn't I able to get my idea across?' More likely, Leo's brain reacted very much like the human brain in such a situation, and he thought, 'That damned stupid human. He's too dumb to understand what I was trying to say.

I looked at my phone, but it was just a sort of prop phone, and I couldn't get any reception because I was in Lord of the Rings, so I'd have only got I don't know, Bugger Baggins

Immature people will not receive loving truth, no matter how gently you offer it.

When you allow the immature to dictate the terms of relationships, you are giving them the green light to exploit, neglect, or abuse you.

Firmly speaking the truth in love and maintaining healthy boundaries in relationships will teach most people to treat you respectfully.

if you are talking with a direct person, present your ideas in a straightforward, logical manner, but if you are speaking with an indirect person, use a more feeling-oriented, participatory style. [...] when you find yourself having to tell other women what to do, your savviest choice is often to adopt their indirect style. That's not being manipulative or weak. That's being smart.

There has to be a minimum amount of Off time between one MIDI byte and the next: a "resting" interval of 1/31,250 second

Since the MIDI-DIN bit rate is 31,250 bits per second, and there are 10 bits in a byte, the MIDI byte rate is 3,125 bytes per second.

there is no such thing as two absolutely simultaneously-occurring events in MIDI—any two events must be at least 0.6 milliseconds apart

Winning the war of words involves choosing our words carefully. It is not just about the words we say, but also about the words we choose not to say.

Truth that is not spoken in love ceases to be truth because it is twisted by other human agendas. Love that is not guided by truth ceases to be love because it is divorced from God's agenda. Once

When someone who knows you points out a sin, a weakness, or a failure, are you thankful?

Prayer is not bringing your list and asking God to sign on the bottom. Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

Word problems are often interpretation problems. We do not say the right thing because we do not believe the right thing.

Genesis 1—the only time in human history when there was no war of words. In Genesis 1, the world of communication was a world of peace, truth, and life. Words were never used as weapons. Truth was never used to tear down. Words were always spoken in love, and human communication never broke the bonds of peace.