Quotes About Communication

Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.

Since Lenin wrote as he spoke, his political writings had something of the compelling quality of his political speeches.

The point is that the powers on which he chiefly relied in exercising this forceful individual leadership were his powers of persuasion.

Lenin had managed to communicate to people who yearned for socialist revolution without seriously expecting it a feeling that such a revolution was a real possibility, and in doing this he was ministering to their deep-seated need for confidence in their own commitment.

Does the mass give the leaders the program and its argumentation, or do the leaders give it to the mass?[163]

He also became known as one who was quick to take offense, even if spoken to in jest.

No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.

Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.

Turk had family in Austin, Texas. But they hadn't heard from him lately and wouldn't expect to.

Weil said. "Details are scarce, and I'm not a scientist, but it involves a biologically mediated attempt at communicating with the Hypotheticals.

Those are things people say, Tyler. Talking about multilateralism and diplomacy is like saying 'I love you'—it serves to facilitate the fucking.

Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.

The gadget's trivial. It's the network that's useful. Not the gadget but the network.

Seduction requires an openness to the other person, a willingness to bend and adapt. Excessive pride, without anything to justify it, is highly anti-seductive.

Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener. Leonardo

It is estimated that over 65 percent of all human communication is nonverbal but that people pick up and internalize only about 5 percent of this information.

For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find. Niccolò Machiavelli, in a letter to Francesco Gnicciardini, May 17, 1521

The leader who tries to change the group's spirit directly—yelling, demanding, disciplining—actually plays into the teenage dynamic and reinforces the desire to rebel.

I got very good on the telephone tricks too. Like calling up a company and find out that the plant was going to building a new addition and getting hold of the engineering office and getting the secretary to give me the direct extension.

Power cannot accrue to those who squander their treasure of words.

The problem in trying to prove a point or gain a victory through argument is that in the end you can never be certain how it affects the people you're arguing with: They may appear to agree with you politely, but inside they may resent you.

talking endlessly about [ourselves] is eminently anti-seductive, revealing not self-sufficiency but insecurity.

The problem is, when things go verbal, you drop out the detail.