Communication Quotes - Page 8

Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.

it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.

Honesty is a fine foundation from which to build upon; for if one was to really know what another thinks and how they feel…they would surely treat each other differently

I hate how it’s so much easier to be open and straightforward to a computer screen than to an actual person.

All social interactions require some loss of freedom.

In every one of your relationships, you are on a continuum between intimacy and separation. You stand on a slide that tilts you toward either intimacy or separateness. Exactly where you stand at any given moment is the result of your decisions, your feelings, how you handle situations, and the way you and the other person communicate.

When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.

The author's mentor advises the NAKED method of breaking the ice at the first meeting: Name, Address, Kin, Experience, and Dreams.

And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?

If your child is constantly interrupting or doing other things to get your attention, he is not getting enough communication of the right kind. Just the fact that you are in the house with him all day does not mean that you are necessarily devoting any time to com- munication of his choice.

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.

I'm the man that'll make your nights shine bright like day light.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

If asked for an opinion we’ll say what we think. And by “what we think” I mean the answer that comes to our mind first, seems most logical and requires the least amount of effort to articulate, while getting us in the least amount of trouble. Really that’s what our communication boils down to.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking to oneself? Is it any wonder that language is an area of such interest in psychology?

(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.