Emily Dickinson
“Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.”
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Xenophon
“The sweetest of all sounds is praise.”
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Job 6:25
“How forcible are right words!”
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Nitin Nohria
“Communication is the real work of leadership.”
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John Powell
“Communication works for those who work at it.”
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Proverbs 17:7
“Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.”
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Psalms 135:17
"They have ears, but they hear not."
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Peter Drucker
“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.”
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Jonathan Swift
“Argument is the worst sort of conversation.”
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Robert Greeleaf
“Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
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Ernest Hemingway
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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Indira Gandhi
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
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Blaise Pascal
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
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Hermann Hesse
“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
"Sin comes when communication lines are down -- it always does, sooner or later."
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Ambrose Bierce
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
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Michael P. Hart
“The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something to say.”
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M. Scott Peck
“You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.”
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Richard L. Evans
“No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.”
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Dean Rusk
“One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.”
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Pythagoras
“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.”
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Dale Carnegie
“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Remember, what you say comes back to you.”
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Mark Twain
“If you have nothing to say, say nothing.”
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Author Unknown
“Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.”
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Robert Schuller
“Big egos have little ears.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
"When we speak quietly one to another things somehow get settled."
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Paul Tillich
“The first duty of love is to listen.”
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Proverbs 15: 1
“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.”
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Indian proverb
"Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf."
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Thomas Jefferson
“When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.”
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Author Unknown
“Say what you mean, and mean what you say, but don't say it mean!”
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Steven Bersani
“Those who treasure the sound of their own voice above all others are truly deaf.”
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Proverbs 15: 7
“The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.”
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Epictetus
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
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Paul J. Meyer
“Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.”
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H. Burke Peterson
“Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is demeaning and cutting.”
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J. B. Priestley
“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”
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George Bernard Shaw
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
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John Marshall
“To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.”
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Ann Landers
“The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.”
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Plato
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”
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Mother Teresa
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
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John F. Kennedy
“If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.”
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Emma Thompson
“Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.”
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Erma Bombeck
“It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.”
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Ernest Hemingway
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
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James Reston
"...I learned the advantage of the dumb-boy technique. I found that people love to talk about themselves."
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Delbert L. Stapley
“When children are ready to talk, that is the time for parents to listen, regardless of the hour.”
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Andre Gide
“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”
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Henry Link
“If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.”
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Colossians 4: 6
“Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”
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Dale Carnegie
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
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Larry King
“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.”
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Lee Iacocca
“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.”
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Author Unknown
The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every human being is unique and of value.
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Epictitus
“Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
"...When we lift our voices tiny molehills of difference become great mountains of conflict."
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Ephesians 4:31
"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.
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Author Unknown
“When you fail to recognize your children’s accomplishments you rob them of many satisfying experiences.”
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Thomas S. Monson
"The ability to communicate is not something we are born with. We have to learn it and earn it."
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Jones Stephens
“I have learned that the head does not hear anything until the heart has listened, and that what the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.”
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Charles Didier
"Language is of divine origin.. Some may know this but do not realize its implications in their daily family life. Love at home starts with loving language."
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Proverbs 15:28
“The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.”
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Brian Tracy
“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.”
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Virginia Satir
“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”
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Margaret Chase Smith
“One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.
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Henry Ford
“If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other persons place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
“Strong families cultivate an attribute of effective communication. They talk out their problems, make plans together, and cooperate toward common objectives.”
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Lionel Kendrick
"Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate."
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. This kind of behavior is never appropriate. Oftentimes character and reputation and almost always self-esteem are destroyed under the hammer of this vicious practice.”
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Randal Wright
“Some would never think of talking to friends the way they do to their own children. We should speak with the same words of kindness to our children, as we would when speaking to our best friends.”
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Lord Chesterfield
“I would rather be in company with a dead man, than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas, the absent man, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
"Mothers, take time to be a real friend to your children. Listen to your children, really listen. Talk with them, laugh and joke with them, sing with them, cry with them, hug them, honestly praise them. Yes, regularly spend unused one-on-one time with each child. Be a real friend to your children."
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Gary Myers
“Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them, and contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them to be to me.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“Love is the very essence of family life. Why is it that the children we love become so frequently the targets of our harsh words? Why is it that these children who love their fathers and mothers sometimes speak as if with daggers that cut to the quick? “There is beauty all around,” only when there’s love at home.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
Communications in the family will often be a sacrifice because we are expected to use our time, our means, our talent, and our patience to impart, share, and understand. Too often we use communication periods as occasions to tell, dictate, plead, or threaten. Nowhere in the broadest sense should communication in the family be used to impose, command, or embarrass.”
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Richard L. Evans
“Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us when the opportunity is ours, for there will come a time when we will wish they would come, and do we know but that the interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?”
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Richard L. Evans
“Parents sometimes simply don't have enough hands and time and attention to do all that is urgent. But in all things there is a priority of importance....and one of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask, that they aren't always teachable, that they won't always listen.”
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Author Unknown
“Words are the bullets in the battle for men's minds, for the consumer's dollar, and for men's souls. Dictators who realize this have learned to subdue nations quickly by capturing their communications media. Packaged in words are the thoughts and feelings of mankind. What every purveyor of knowledge learns early is that words can make him or break him and his cause.”
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Author Unknown
“Our communication day begins when we wake up and stops when lips, ears, eyes, and brain are closed in sound sleep. 75% of this waking day is devoted to verbal learning. 45% of this verbal learning is through the ear. We listen to a thousand times more words than we read; and we spend almost as much time listening as the combined time spent reading, writing, or speaking.”
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Randal Wright
“Have you ever stopped to consider the power of words? Through mere words, wars have started and ended. Tender feelings have been hurt and soothed. Courage has been instilled and fear has been implanted. Lives have been destroyed and others changed for the better. Think back on your own life when words have hurt you deeply or have comforted and given you strength and hope to do better.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“It takes personal sacrifice to communicate when conditions are right for the other person—during the meal preparation, after a date, a hurt, a victory, a disappointment, or when someone wants to share a confidence. One must be willing to forego personal convenience to invest time in establishing a firm foundation for family communication. When communication in the family seems to be bogging down, each individual should look to himself for the remedy.”
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Karl A. Menninger
"I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me, to be in their shoes when they talk, to try to know them without my mind pressing against theirs, or arguing, or changing the subject. My attitude is: 'Tell me more!' This person is showing me his soul. It is a little dry and meager and full of grinding talk, just now, but presently he will begin to think, not just automatically to talk. He will show his true self. Then he will be wonderfully alive.”
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Urie Bronfenbrenner
"Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces, although there is danger there, as in the behavior it prevents: the talks, the games, the family festivities...through which much of the child's learning takes place and through which his character is formed. Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people.:
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