Quotes About Understanding

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

Real communication is impossible without listening.

All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.

Integrated marketing communications is a way of looking at the whole marketing process from the view point of the customer.

Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.

The meaning of a communication is the result you get.

Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.

Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.

Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

Communication is only possible between equals.

Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Give me the gift of a listening heart.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.

Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.