Browsing Quotes With Tag: communication (72)
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from his angle as well as from your own.
Speaker: Henry FordPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
Speaker: Harry A. OverstreetPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good window does not call attention to itself. It merely lets in the light. A good speaker is like that. He is so disarmingly natural that his hearers never notice his manner of speaking: they are conscious only of his material.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you will come to me and say ‘let us sit down and take counsel together, and, if we differ from one another, understand why it is that we differ from one another, just what the points at issue are,’ we will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only had the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together.
Speaker: Woodrow WilsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
'The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.’
If you would impress an audience, be impressed yourself. Your spirit, shining through your eyes, radiating through your voice, and proclaiming itself through your manner, will communicate itself to your audience.Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Get a student to say ‘no’ at the beginning, or a customer, child, husband, or wife, and it takes the wisdom and patience of angels to transform that bristling negative into an affirmative.
Speaker: Harry OverstreetPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The sincerity with which a man speaks imparts to his voice a color of truth no perjurer can feign.
Speaker: Alexander WoolcottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Think as wise men do but speak as the common people do.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
Speaker: Ludwig WittgensteinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As one enlarges his ability to get others to understand him, he opens up to that extent his opportunity for usefulness. Certainly in our society, where it is necessary for many for them even in the simplest matters to co-operate with each other, it is necessary first of all to understand each other. Language is the principal conveyor of understanding, and so we must learn to use it, not crudely but discriminatingly.
Speaker: Owen D. YoungPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The past reflects eternally between two mirrors – the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn’t do or say. I wish now that from the beginning, even then in the first weeks that I knew her, even on that night, the words had come to tell her… to tell her that I liked her.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!