Quotes About Understanding

Si se me preguntara cómo resumir el secreto de una buena comunicación, yo diría que es enfocar a los demás y no a uno mismo. Es el problema número uno de los conferenciantes sin experiencia, y también el problema número uno de los líderes ineficientes. Cualquier persona podrá conectarse más rápido con los demás cuando su enfoque no radique exclusivamente en él.

The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. Lincoln asked, "How many legs will a sheep have if you call a tail a leg?" "Five," the man answered. "No," replied Lincoln, "he'll still have four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.

Am I Making Myself Clear?

The ability to connect with others begins with understanding the value of people.

There is a great deal of difference between knowing and understanding. You can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Know the reasons you and your listener want to communicate and build a bridge between those reasons.

What people remember most is how you make them feel.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

Only a leader who has followed well knows how to lead others well. Good leadership requires an understanding of the world that followers live in. Connecting with your people becomes possible because you have walked in their shoes. You know what it means to be under authority and thus have a better sense of how authority should be exercised. In contrast, leaders who have never followed well or submitted to authority tend to be prideful, unrealistic, rigid, and autocratic. "Civilization

Se requiere humildad para buscar realimentación. Se requiere sabiduría para entenderla, analizarla y actuar sobre ella apropiadamente". —Stephen R. Covey

Material handouts are a poor substitute for love and understanding. People don't need more things—they need more tenderness

they all share the ability to connect visually, intellectually, emotionally, and verbally.

If you desire to mine the gold of good intentions in others, then forgiveness is essential. And it's rarely a one-time thing. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was right when he said, "Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.

No entender lo que usted quiere es un problema de conocimiento. No tratar de obtener lo que quiere es un problema de motivación. No lograr lo que quiere es un problema de persistencia.

And remember, it is with the attitude with which you judge others that you will also be judged. If you mine the gold of good intentions in your relationship with others, then people will more likely do the same for you.

Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.

you can care about people without leading them, but you cannot lead people well without caring about them.

The more you do to go beyond words, the greater the chance you will connect with people.

Remember that success is just 15 percent product knowledge and it's 85 percent people knowledge.

Connectors do the difficult work of keeping it simple.

The larger the group, the simpler the communication needs to be.

Relacionarse es la aptitud de identificarse y establecer lazos con las personas de un modo tal que aumenta la influencia que se tiene sobre ellas.

Cavett Roberts said: "If my people understand me, I'll get their attention. If my people trust me, I'll get their action." For

If you talk to a man in the language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.