Communication Quotes · Page 109

Listen to the SILENCE. That will open up your wisdom.

— Hiroshana Jayamal

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Focus, Listen, Think & Act will always lead you to success.”

— Muhammad Basit Rana -MBR

“The birds of anonymity fly high above in our shared sky. Witness their beauty.”

— Truth Devour

“If you are listening to the roar, you're going to miss the whisper.”

— Tracy Pinkerton

“… I was telling you... but you don't listen to me…”

— Deyth Banger

“Oh Abby...I want you to know...I am so full of shit. You should not listen to me. I know nothing.”

— Gemma Burgess

“Conversions were easy, but making full-time disciples was hard.”

— Larry Eskridge

I started in '69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that's I think why my…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our…

— Arun Manilal Gandhi

We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the…

— Judith Butler

From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of…

— Samuel J. Palmisano

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies

— John Cleese

When someone praises me for some speech uploaded on YouTube, I politely tell them I've been acting for many years.

— Radha Ravi

“difficult conversations are almost never about getting the facts right. They are about conflicting perceptions, interpretations, and values.”

— Douglas Stone

The attitude of the Pakistani people is very good. Whenever I release any statement or deliver any kind of speech, they respond…

— Abdul Sattar Edhi

“Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew…

— Kate DiCamillo

I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed…

— Elliot Perlman

“I cope with jealousy by having a furious conversation in my head when I rant and rave to Mum about how much…

— Sophia Bennett

This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost…

— May Sarton

“Again, it is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs,…

— Aristotle

Typically, in a live-action format, when you watch a wrestling show, you've got wrestlers in a ring in front of a thousand,…

— Eric Bischoff

“Having to talk to people was the one thing, but soliciting conversation was something else. If I acted squirmy or didn't make…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“Positive thinking by itself does not work. Your embodied vision, partnered with vibrant and energetic thinking, and balanced with active listening, followed…

— Sumner Davenport

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

— Hannah More

“If he is not edified by my silence, he will not be edified by my speech.”

— Abba Pambo

“Words whipped around me, faster than I could catch 'em.”

— L.M. Bryski

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

— Carl Rogers

It's annoying when people tag my name in their conversation with someone else [on Twitter.]

— Casper Smart

In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Active listening is one of the best services a company can provide.”

— Susan C. Young

“Mrs. Penniman always, even in conversation, italicised her personal pronouns.”

— Henry James

“CB communication is not only fun, it's also smart.”

— Mark Long & Bonnie Crystal

I'll be honest with you, I really struggle with the conversation around gun control.

— Alicia Garza

I feel so offended by the truth that sometimes I put my headphones on an listen to the lies.

— Justin Molebatsi @Iamsirjustin

“I am alone, but never lonely. I am lonely, but never alone.”

— Benjamin Aubrey Myers

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

— Benjamin Disraeli

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

— Edie Sedgwick

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

— Etgar Keret

In a reading, I communicate what I see, what I hear and what I feel. It's as simple as that.

— Tyler Henry