Quotes About Communication

La respuesta tiene que ver, en parte, con un principio de la comunicación que, aunque es esencial, generalmente no se tiene demasiado en cuenta: aquello que mostramos primero modifica la forma en la que la gente percibe lo que presentamos después.

Those who don't know how to get people to say yes soon fall away; those who do, stay and flourish.

Las acciones pueden abarcar desde tamborileo con los dedos en un laboratorio, sonreír en una conversación o cambiar de postura en una interacción entre profesor y alumno; todos ellos, si se realizan de forma sincronizada, hacen que las personas mejoren sus respectivas evaluaciones entre sí.

According to Korzybski, differentiating orders of abstraction also included distinguishing between (a) descriptions of experiences and (b) inferences (conclusions drawn from our experiences and our descriptions of those experiences); and between descriptions about descriptions, inferences based upon other inferences, affect about affect (feelings about other feelings), and between one person's abstractions and another person's abstractions, etc.

The value of mapping is that it allows us to understand, plan, and communicate about some experience or phenomenon without having to actually "be there.

By words one of us can give another the greatest happiness or bring about utter despair; by words the teacher imparts his knowledge to the student; by words the orator sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth emotions and are universally the means by which we influence our fellow-creatures.

Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?" "No. They only say that I'm good in the sack." "They are accurate but limited," I said. "And if you give me their names I'll kill them.

I always loved it when I had a story to tell her, because her attention was complete and felt like sunlight.

Get out of your ideological bubble. If most of the people you talk with agree with you, you're wasting your time. You need to engage with people who may disagree or who haven't thought hard about the issues. Reach across to independents, even to Republicans and self-styled Tea Partiers. Find people who are willing to listen to the facts and are open to arguments and ideas, regardless of the label they apply to themselves. We need them.

Kdyby rybá? napichoval na há?ek jako návnadu n?co, co chutná jemu, asi by na to moc ryb nechytil. Proto užívá jako návnadu to, co chutná rybám. S chlapci je to stejné. Kdybyste jim kázali o tom, co sami považujete za po- vznášející, nechytili byste je.

From "The Book That Changed My Life": -"But your journey is never over until you return from it to share with society what you have learned." ~ Robert Ballard -"We never anticipate being changed by what we read. Such an experience cannot be planned for." ~ Brother Christopher

So the government spent five million dollars on a report to expunge the English language of such words as 'manpower', 'mannerism', 'manoeuvre' etc so any feminists working on the government payroll wouldn't be offended. Which should be very comforting to the next homeless kid sleeping near a manhole cover, thought Les, to know that he is now sleeping next to a personhole cover.

So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for a small time and that just about goes as far as it can go toward being a true thing.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

A four year old girl was overheard whispering in her newborn baby brother's ear: "Baby," she whispers, "tell me what God sounds like. I'm starting to forget." -- Between the Dreaming and the Coming True

Writing is hard enough. Writing can be doubly hard when one tries to write to some unseen, unknown crowd of folks in Peoria or any other spot on the planet.

One of the secrets to sharing a work in progress is to know whom you are sharing it with and what you want to learn from them.

You listen to me, Annie Woods. The one word that's forbidden when we're in bed is 'no.'" She

Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.

You must then learn to reproduce, or imitate, the sounds which are different from your own way of speaking, and to do that you must drill. This

Sometimes, when I am reading, the way a person has phrased his truth is as important to me as the truth itself. The wording is like a powerful painting that I would like to put on the wall. I want to share the statement with other people, not just for its truth, but also because the way it is worded somehow has a special meaning for me.

Sometimes, when I am reading, the way a person has phrased his truth is as important to me as the truth itself.