Ex Communication Quotes
Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.
Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
If we don't tell people about our needs, it is much less likely they will be met.
We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.
We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.
While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth.
The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.
The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.
We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.
Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.
The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.
Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.
Go light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social life ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.
I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.
We need not just one flash of light and comfort, but we need the continuing blessing of communication with God.
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.
I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-year A.D.D.
The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society.
An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language.
Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.
I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.
There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.
Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?
The main thing I want to do, is to make our website the most entertaining website there is on the Internet. I want it to be the premiere site for entertainment, for communication, and for fun.
The medium obscured the message.
Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.
Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.
Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.
The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.
Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.
The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.
At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.
God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening.
Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
