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Quotes About Understanding

A lack of communication between citizens and policemen is real stuff.
~ Stevie Wonder
If we don't tell people about our needs, it is much less likely they will be met.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
~ Unknown
I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication.
~ William Shatner
Communication is the key to successful relationships.
~ Jeanne Phillips
The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.
~ Unknown
I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
~ William Golding
I was analyzing the guys' nonverbal communication.
~ Unknown
Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.
~ Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The true value of communication is often not so much what you say to each other but the simple, powerful fact that you care enough to say something to each other so often.
~ Unknown
Communication can only take place among equals.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Consensus demands communication.
~ John Dewey
When we speak quietly one to another things somehow get settled.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.
~ Marianne Williamson
My father was a dentist, and I always thought that he was one of the 10. It's an interesting way to personalize and humanize, which is one of the most important aspects of communication.
~ Frank Luntz
Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other's service.
~ Lucy Liu
Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)
~ Tucker Max
We give empathy to others for our own benefit.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg