Communication Quote by Jan Karon Download Open image ““Listening is among the most generous ways to give.”” — Jan Karon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Kindness
“Listening intently even for a minute is one of the nicest gifts we can give to another human being.” — Rebecca Z. Shafir Copy Share Image
“Listening gets you out of your self centered camp. Listening is kindness.” — Tai Sheridan Copy Share Image
“What is offered from a generous heart should be accepted generously.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Listen. Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us—whether their words appear to be deep or… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Generous listening is powered by curiosity, a virtue we can invite and nurture in ourselves to render it instinctive. It involves a kind of vulnerability—a willingness to be surprised, to let go of assumptions and take in ambiguity. The listener wants to understand the humanity behind the words of the other, and patiently summons one’s own best self and one’s… — Krista Tippett Copy Share
“Let your kindness, your compassion and your listening ear speaks itself.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“Listening is a gift that generates the quality of life and it helps us to grow in life.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“Listening actively confirms for people that you are positively receiving and thoroughly understanding the message they are conveying.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others) — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Sorrow and joy, he thought, so inextricably entwined that he could scarcely tell where one left off and the other began.” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Maybe the best way to honor the deceased was to laugh with the living.” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves teachers to… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“For one thing, telling a lie is like eating peanuts. One leads to another. In no time at all, you’ve gone through a bagful.”… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“And so I enjoyed the warm feelings, the stuff of the heart, when it was present between us, as it sometimes was, even in… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share
