Quotes About Connection

people with charisma possess an outward focus instead of an inward one. They pay attention to other people, and they desire to add value to them.

be sure your communication goes beyond words. How can you do that? By connecting on four levels: visually, intellectually, emotionally, and verbally.

When you like people and treat them like individuals who have value, you begin to develop influence with them. You develop trust.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.

Few things will pay you bigger dividends in life than the time and trouble you take to understand people and build relationships. As

The greatest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.

NO NOTES. This was truly an oral event. Storytellers didn't read their stories; they told them, which allowed for eye contact.

When somebody loves you with no strings attached and no personal agenda, it's the most freeing thing in the world.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

The happiest day of your life will be the day when you realize "we" really is the most important word in the English language.

If you're going to connect, people need to know that you understand them.

But the Law of Magnetism really is true: who you are is who you attract.

John W. Gardner observed, "If I had to name a single all-purpose instrument of leadership, it would be communication.

If you want to get your message across, you have to learn how to communicate in someone else's world.

The best way to become a person that others are drawn to is to develop qualities that we are attracted to in others.

The problems around us are not as crucial as the people.

The key to developing charisma: Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are in making them feel good about you.

Leaders gain credibility when they suffer with those they lead.

As playwright George Bernard Shaw observed, "The greatest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.

PARA UNA PERSONA PROMEDIO, SER ESCUCHADO SE ACERCA MUCHO A SER AMADO, CASI NO ES POSIBLE DISTINGUIR UNA COSA DE LA OTRA». —DAVID AUGSBURGER

Decide that People Are Worth the Effort:

Afterward a reporter asked Gandhi's assistant, Mahadev Desai, how the Indian statesman had been able to deliver such a speech without any notes. "You don't understand Gandhi," Desai responded. "You see, what he thinks is what he feels. What he feels is what he says. What he says is what he does. What Gandhi feels, what he thinks, what he says, and what he does are all the same. He does not need notes.

Connecting has a lot to do with letting who you are influence everything you do."8

Porque sólo las personas maduras que se enfocan en el prójimo son capaces de establecer relaciones genuinas con los demás.