Quotes About Communication

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.

Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.

I want to have a great open relationship with our press.

Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.

If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things can go really, really wrong.

Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.

Make your relationships more important than your accomplishments .

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

The most important part of any relationship is allowing others to choose their own response to a situation, and of course this is the most difficult part.

Dying to meet your girlfriends that you said you might bring. If they're the ones that tell you that you do the right thing.

Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration.

A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'

I don't mind my wife having to last word. In fact I'm delighted when she reaches it.

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.