Quotes on Communication

Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives and interpretation, you're dealing with the reality inside another person's head and heart. You're listening to understand. You're focused on receiving the deep communication of another human soul.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.

The commander must be at constant pains to keep his troops abreast of all the latest tactical experience and developments, and must insist on their practical application. He must see to it that his subordinates are trained in accordance with the latest requirements. The best form of welfare for the troops is first-class training, for this saves unnecessary casualties.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Once you can clearly describe what you are reacting to, free of your interpretation or evaluation of it, other people are less likely to be defensive when they hear it.

High thoughts must have high language.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right.

When we are depressed, our thinking blocks us from being aware of our needs, and then being able to take action to meet our needs.

Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.

However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.

Before we tackle the gangs and the basic story, we have to make sure that we have liberated ourselves from how we have been educated and make sure we are coming from a spirituality of our own choosing.