796 quotes found
“To say exactly what one means, even to one's own private satisfaction, is difficult. To say exactly what one means and to involve another person is harder still. Communication between you and me re...”
“In person, Mr. Desmond mixes low-key friendliness and on-message discipline.”
“Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.”
“A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.”
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
“In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.”
“It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really a...”
“The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. Youve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You dont even want to communicate in a relationship. You thi...”
“If you listen closely, silence can be deafening.”
“He mentioned the connection between us. He identified with me. These are the things that many people want to hear, that most normal people want to be able to truthfully say, but almost no one can.”
“The great obstacle to communication is the tendency to constantly evaluate or moralize with others, creating in them a fear to speak or act. The great key to this communication is to learn to liste...”
“Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experience it, it can become one of the richest feelings they have ever had.”
“To carefully listen is a powerful way of saying to another that we value that person. When we take the time to understand we communicate that we care, we want to understand, we respect their expres...”
“Often in close relationships, the subject being discussed is not the subject at all.”
“When we dont tell those we love about whats really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.”
“When we constantly hear that we should be smarter, better connected, more productive, wealthierit takes real courage to claim the time and space to follow the currents of our talents, our aspiratio...”
“Love starts when peace begins.”
“Its better to bite your tongue than to eat your words.”
“One of the greatest ways you can affirm value in another person is by giving them the gift of your undivided attention, the kind of attention that says, I hear what you are saying because I value w...”
“Prayer is communication. You talk, God listens. You listen when God talks.”
