Quotes about Communication

During conflict, it is tempting to complain to a third party rather than courageously speak the truth in love to the person you're upset with. This makes the matter worse. Instead, you should go directly to the person involved.

Imagine if you were asked by your country to be an ambassador to an enemy nation. You would probably have to learn a new language and adapt to some customs and cultural differences in order to be polite and accomplish your mission. As an ambassador you would not be able to isolate yourself from the enemy. To fulfill your mission, you would have to have contact and relate to them.

There is no greater antidepressant than communication and fellowship with God.

Busyness is a great enemy of relationships.

my love cannot negate the words of my mouth and the righteousness I require.

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.

Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.