Communication Quote by Robert I. Sutton Download Open image ““Fight as if you are right, listen as if you are wrong.”” — Robert I. Sutton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication
“Many people will fight you, not because you are wrong, but because you are different.” — Nuruddin Ushawu Copy Share Image
“He who regards conversation as a battle can win only by being an antagonist, only by disagreeing successfully, whether he is right or wrong.” — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“Be careful when you choose your battle. In all cases peace is better than proving you are right.” — Sameh Elsayed Copy Share Image
“Remember what you always told me.” “Hold on tight and fight as hard as you can.” — A.A. Freda Copy Share Image
“organizations that spread and sustain excellence are infused with a “relentless restlessness”—that often uncomfortable urge for constant innovation, driven by the nagging feeling that… — Robert I. Sutton Copy Share Image
“two tests that I use for spotting whether a person is acting like an asshole: • Test One: After talking to the alleged asshole,… — Robert I. Sutton Copy Share Image
The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes? — Robert I. Sutton Copy Share Image
“a host of cost-cutting moves, and one of the changes was that although employees” — Robert I. Sutton Copy Share Image
“on outside the meeting and agree on a steward to be responsible for it. With frequent, crisp stand-up meetings, there can never be the… — Robert I. Sutton Copy Share Image
“My rule of thumb is that no work team should have membership in the double digits (and my preferred size is six), since our… — Robert I. Sutton Copy Share Image
Assholes tend to stick together, and once stuck are not easily separated. — Robert I. Sutton Copy Share Image
“What you “learn” from Steve Jobs tells more about yourself than about him!” — Robert I. Sutton Copy Share Image
“better to shoot the messenger than to learn about—and fix—the problems. In contrast to such constructive defiance, I know bosses who employ the opposite… — Robert I. Sutton Copy Share Image
Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that… — Robert I. Sutton Copy Share Image
“As Max DePree, former CEO of furniture maker Herman Miller, put it, “The first job of a leader is to define reality.” — Robert I. Sutton 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… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
