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Stress won't go away if an unresolved conflict exists. It's like painting primer over rotting wood. -Scott Morton

The only sort of four-letter words I use are 'good', 'love', 'warm' and 'kind'. -Dame Catherine Cookson

quotation about listening and understanding

Using the analogy of the human mind as a computer, gossip can be compared to a computer virus. -Don Miguel Ruiz

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. -Hannah Whitall Smith

He who knows only his side of the case, knows little of that. -John Stuart Mill

When you listen, you offer a package of the most valuable healing gifts you can give: compassion, consolation, and forgiveness. -James Kullander

If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile. -Anne Mackay Thompson

Compliments invite the person who is complimented to embrace a new perception of him or herself. And just as layers and layers of nacre form a pearl over an irritating grain of sand, so compliments collect around us, developing us in all our beauty. -Daphne Rose Kingma

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr. Joyce Brothers

You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight to our hearts. -Cochise

Success in communication depends on finding common ground before attempting to redirect the interaction toward a new outcome. -Rick Brinkman and Rick Kirschner

Only connect. -E.M. Forster

I am opening my heart to speak to you... open yours to receive my words. -Como

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book--provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people. -Erich Fromm

Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs. -Stephen Covey

Pronoia: the idea that everyone is not out to get you, but that they are out to love you, or at least appreciate you, if you reciprocate. -Helena Cronin

The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others... And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh

... even if you can't make people like you, at least you can try to see things from their point of view. -Joan Webb-Ewen

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably. -Horace

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence. -Samuel Butler

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth. -Benjamin Disraeli

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.... -Robert Fulghum

These words are mine and they are true. -Chief Meninock

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. -Helen Keller

A critic is a legless man who teaches running. -Channing Pollock

...you get appreciation by giving it. -Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschner

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. -Bishop Berkeley

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. -John F. Kennedy

Quote about listening and communication by Plato

 

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