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Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.
Turkish Proverb (see more Turkish proverbs )
Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.
Stanley Horowitz
Try in thine own experience, each; that ye speak not for one whole day unkindly of any; that ye say not a harsh word to any, about any; and see what [such] a day would bring to you…
Edgar Cayce Reading 262-106 (see works by Edgar Cayce )
To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences.
John Henry Patterson
“Can the teacher recognize insincerity in an inquirer?”
“Instantly. The pretentious inquirer gives himself away in dozens of ways of which he is unaware. They include chattering instead of listening, a nervous need to interrupt, a veiled facial expression of contempt when told the truth, a wish to argue, an attempt to flatter the teacher.”
The Daily Guru
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences.
John Henry Patterson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968) American civil rights leader (see works by and about Martin Luther King Jr )
I praise loudly; I blame softly.
Catherine the Second (1729-1796) Russian Empress
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert
True listening brings us in touch even with that which is unsaid and unsayable.
from Anam Cara, Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World (p98), by John O’Donohue
I am touched by another when the distance between us is reduced to zero. I am touched only if I respond from my own center – that is, spontaneously, originally. But you do not touch me except from your own center, out of your own genius. Touching is always reciprocal. You cannot touch me unless I touch you in response.
James Carse
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.
Bruce Burton
To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences.
John Henry Patterson
Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
Edwin H Friedman
Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.
Theodore Zeldin
To learn through listening, practice it naively and actively. Naively means that you listen openly, ready to learn something, as opposed to listening defensively, ready to rebut. Listening actively means you acknowledge what you heard and act accordingly.
Betsy Sanders
Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn’t a chance.
Daniel Goleman
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
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