Communication Quotes · Page 127

Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

— Angelo Sotira

“creating a void which others seek to fill through conversation.”

— Iain Pears

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

— David Hume

Every conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today.

— Gary W. Goldstein

People will assume what a record is going to be like and they are loath to even give it a listen.

— Michael Ball

Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say

— Paulo Coelho

“The guiding mantra for connecting is this: it’s just a conversation.”

— David Sturt

We listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts and we open our minds, open our souls.

— Michael Jackson

Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

— Stephen Covey

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God;…

— Brother Lawrence

A lot of times I like to listen to albums between midnight and three in the morning - it's my favorite listening…

— Max Cavalera

Without communication, there isno relationship. Without respect,there is no love. Without trust, there is no reason to continue.

— Anonymous

Forgive what may seem cut speech if I say that, in my judgment, a President with a just sense of duty has…

— Robert Owen

Make that phone call. Have that conversation. Send that letter. Tell that person you love them more than anything. Tomorrow is a…

— Anonymous

I miss my friends...and the conversations we had...how we get started...how we laugh with silly jokes...how we fight and how we cry…

— Eiyhwa

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“In the heart of the teenager, love has to do with connection, acceptance, and nurture. Connection requires the physical presence of the…

— Gary Chapman

Free speech underpins our democratic society and our universities have a long and proud history of being places where students and academics…

— Gavin Williamson

“As the others paired off he turned to face her. "Can't leave me partnerless," he said. She pulled a face, grabbed the…

— Trudi Canavan

“Like many people whose lives had formed around a particularly painful incident, she had grown used to providing ellipses around the event…

— Mira Jacob

Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I…

— Anne Lamott

There's no quit in our family. Our dad was the chief proponent of that. [On the set] we were constantly telling each…

— Andrew Shue

“In Arabic linguistic usage, we are told, the interpretation of “water” as knowledge is confirmed by the common fi gure of speech…

— Franz Rosenthal

“For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious…

— Virginia Woolf

Dont listen with the intent to reply. Hear what is being said with the intent to understand

— Bakare

Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

— Lydia Sigourney

The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond.

— Sheila E

“I like to listen, and I like to talk. Heavens, girl, can't you see I like to talk?”

— Truman Capote

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

That sad moment when you find an old conversation between you and someone you don't talk to anymore.

— Anonymous

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think

— Nick Cannon

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

— Fran Lebowitz

In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.

— Mason Cooley

“Everything slows down when we listen and stop trying to fix the unfixable.”

— Anne Lamott

I've had that conversation with God - not feeling worthy.

— Jonathan Roumie

When you are listening to someone you respect, treat their whispers like screams

— Ramit Sethi

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

— Mother Teresa

I hate the amount of communication, the obligation that you have just by owning a phone.

— Lucas Till

Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

— John P. Kotter

“It's bad enough my men wonder why I must kidnap my own wife to hold a conversation with her.”

— Jessica Dotta