Browsing Quotes With Tag: communication (72)
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, their time runs out.
Speaker: Oliver Wendell HolmesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One of the first rules of medical inquiry is to ask the patient ‘what hurts?’
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:38 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Some people operate in a spirit of contention – clever with words from much practice, but not focused on correcting their own imperfections. They focus on the imperfections of others. The Spirit of the Lord withdraws from them with their fault-finding and contentions. Unless they change, they rarely endure to the end but fall away in time.
Speaker: Robert D. HalesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
…We can share it [our beliefs] in a spirit of loving understanding – boldly and confidently, with an eye single to the glory of God – without pressuring our listeners or feeling that we have failed in our duty if they do not immediately accept what we believe.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Interestingly, a person can allow himself to be vulnerable on the surface of his life if he still retains a deep God/Christ-centered invulnerability. Then he can afford to be gentle and soft, to give and take, to give love without demanding anything in return – and that of course leaves him open to rebuffs and disappointments on occasion. But when a person is deeply vulnerable, centered on something other than God and therefore not securely rooted, he can’t afford to be vulnerable on the surface, or he risks being simply wiped out.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What a person is teaches far more eloquently than what a person says or even does. It communicates quietly, subtly; it is a constant radiation, and others, though unable to identify or articulate it, still understand it, sense it, absorb it, and respond to it.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am convinced that in the long run no one can hurt another without the other’s consent; that is, hurt him in a deeply significant, personal, internal sense. This is because we always have the power to choose a response to what someone else does to us. This may be the reason why failure to forgive someone else is a greater sin than that which he has done to us. That is, it causes more damage to the unforgiving one – a damage in the mind and heart – than that caused by what the other person may do to him externally.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Inevitably, any time we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. Often the best defense is a good offense, and sometimes this manifests itself in cynicism, the defense of the mind, for when we expect nothing we will never be disappointed. So the attack frequently manifests itself in sarcasm, in cutting humor, in sharpness of tongue, in criticalness, and in anything which will keep from exposing the soft, vulnerable tenderness within. Each partner then will tend to wait upon the initiative of the other for love, only again to be disappointed but also to be confirmed as to the rightness of his or her own past accusations.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Empathy – deep, genuine listening – is risky business, and unless we are inwardly secure we will not feel that we can afford that risk, but it is certainly one of the most powerful expressions of love.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The whole key to human influence is first to be influenced, to understand another as he wishes to be understood, and to reflect that understanding emphatically so the he is then open to your own influence.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True love is found in the affirmation of another person’s identity and stewardship, in seeking his or her growth and good, not in interpreting all the other person’s responses in terms of one’s own needs, hungers, or desires.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Until people see and feel, they will not hear. If they see a model contrary to what they hear – if they feel anger or rejection breathing behind words of love – they will be confused.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can’t live with an angel unless you change to a like condition. You eventually shape up or ship our. Whatever good there is in one person is appealed to by the angel nature of the other. Most people have a great deal of good within them, and if only others would perceive it and treat them accordingly, this would tend to bring it out.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It takes two to fight, and if one partner does not fight back, soon the other’s angry surliness spends itself. When my wife didn’t punish me, the Lord did in His matchless way, and I ended up apologizing to my wife… For the Lord is not only our advocate with the Father; He is our advocate with all of our Father’s other children, unless we become our own advocate and defender.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Each person sees the world not as it is but as he or she is. When he opens his mouth to describe what he sees, he in effect describes himself, that is, his perception.
That does not mean that there are no facts… But each person’s interpretation of these facts represents his prior experiences, and the facts have no meaning whatsoever apart from his interpretation.Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself.Speaker: William ShakespearePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Men must be taught as if you taught them not
And things unknown proposed as things forgot.”Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man who thinks only of himself is hopelessly uneducated. He is not educated, no matter how instructed he may be.
Speaker: Nicholas Murray ButlerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
Speaker: Alfred AdlerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!