COMMUNICATION & UNDERSTANDING


‘Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.'
ANDREW ALDEN

‘State your case, share your point of view but, in the final analysis, accept others’ right to choose what’s right for them’
ALAN WHICKER

‘Think more, listen more, be cautious in your words and in your actions – the advantage of doing things in this way is that you will have fewer regrets’.
CONFUCIUS

‘Compassion provides the basis of human survival, the real value of human life - and without that there is a basic piece missing.'
DALAI LAMA

‘It is never good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.'
ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO

‘Only connect.'
E. M. FORSTER

‘If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.'
ENOCH POWELL

‘Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.'
FRANKLYN D ROOSEVELT

‘Communication depends on our ability to make sense of the world as we perceive it and to understand the perceived world as others describe it.'
GEOFF COX

‘Miscommunication lies at the heart of most unhappy situations.’
GEORGE DAVIES

‘If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.’  
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

‘The more emotionally charged the occasion, the more vivid the recollection'
JANE WHEATLEY

 ‘Understanding human dynamics is still the most important thing in business.'
MARK MCCORMACK

‘People will forget what you said and will forget what you did, but will never forget how you made them feel.’
MAYA ANGELOU

‘Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.'  
MOTHER TERESA

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

‘Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.'
PAUL BOESE

 ‘What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.'
PEARL BAILEY

‘Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.'
PYTHAGORAS

‘Never look down on someone unless you are helping them up.'
REVEREND JESSE JACKSON

 ‘Listen with empathy, seeking first to understand, then to be understood.'
STEPHEN COVEY

‘That which touches the heart is engraved in the memory.'
VOLTAIRE