Browsing Quotes With Tag: communication (72)
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Speaker: Thomas JeffersonPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:38 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you are right, you have no reason to be angry; if you are wrong, you have no right to be happy.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Speaker: Isaac AsimovPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Do you think words have answers?” I asked.
“It depends on your questions,” said Byrd. “But”- she turned her head to look at me over Sophie- “you should know that there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.”
I stared at her.
“Sometimes poetry – words – give us a small, lovely look at ourselves,” said Byrd. “And sometimes that is enough.”
There was silence.
“Sometimes,” Byrd added in a soft voice.Speaker: Patricia MacLachlanSource: BabyPosted: 29 Aug 2008 at 8:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When in doubt, speak the truth.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
That two men may be real friends, they must have opposite opinions, similar principles, and different loves and hatreds.
Speaker: Francois Rene de ChateaubriandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Speaker: Francis of AssisiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The art of being wise is the ability to know what to overlook.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
Speaker: Wilson MiznerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Speaker: J.S. KnoxPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best answer to anger is silence.
Speaker: German proverbPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
So long as a man is angry he cannot be right.
Speaker: Chinese proverbPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who gossips to you will also gossip about you.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The formula for a good speech: Have a good beginning, a great ending, and keep the two as close together as possible.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can’t fight someone who’s trying to understand you.
Speaker: Stephen CoveyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
Speaker: TagorePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!