Nature has given us two ears, two eyes
and but one tongue to the end that we should
hear and see more than we speak.
Socrates
Every word has consequences.
Every silence, too.
Jean-Paul Sartre
- Speak softly.
- Don't raise your voice. But don't speak too quietly.
- Speak at a medium pace.
- Listen more than you speak. Don't share too much private information.
- Make eye contact. Smile. Use your eyes and body language.
- Don't interrupt others.
- Give people your undivided attention.
- Don't curse.
- Don't use words you don't know how to pronounce.
- Read.
- Study women who you want to be like. Do research the same way an actor does to build a character.
Information is giving out;
communication is getting through.
Sydney J. Harris
Change happens by listening and then
starting a dialogue with the people who are
doing something you don't believe is right.
Jane Goodall
Love your enemies, for they tell you you faults.
Benjamin Franklin
One of the most sincere forms of respect is
actually listening to what another has to say.
Bryant H. McGill
People are taught how to speak,
but their major concern
should be how to keep silent.
Leo Tolstoy
1. Your plans. Move in silence.
2. Your finances.
3. Your love life.
4. Someone else's confidential information (malicious gossip).
5. Your drama.
6. Your controversial views (religion, politics, social taboos).
7. Your good deeds.
Three can keep a secret,
if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin
It is better to be king of your silence
than a slave of your words.
William Shakespeare
A fool is known by his speech;
and a wise man by silence.
Pythagoras
Wise men speak because they have something
to say; fools because they have to say something.
Plato
Strong minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events,
weak minds discuss people.
Socrates
If you propose to speak always ask yourself,
is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.
Buddha
I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow.
Easy doesn't make you think.
Madonna
The more you discipline yourself,
the less you will be disciplined by others.
Napoleon Hill
The first step in a fascist movement is
the combination... of a number of men who
possess more than the average share of leisure,
brutality and stupidity. The next step is
to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent,
by emotional excitement on the one hand
and terrorism on the other.
Bertrand Russell
Think before you speak, read before you think.
Fran Lebowitz
He who speaks, sows. He who listens, collect.
Pythagoras
Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
Mahatma Gandhi
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are
cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless
I can state the arguments against my position
better than the people who are in opposition.
I am qualified to speak only when
I've reached that state.
Charlie Munger
Opinion is really the lowest form of human
knowledge. It requires no accountability, no
understanding. The highest form of knowledge
is empathy, for it requires us to suspend
our egos and live in another's world.
Bill Bullard
1. Jokes about something that is true and sensitive.
2. Jokes with your opinions that are not positive.
3. Sarcasm that goes too far (if the person does not understand that you're being sarcastic).
4. Jokes about stereotypes (racial/stereotypes/sexist/groups of people).
5. Vulgar jokes (sexist/sex/toilet humor/swearing).
6. Self-deprecating humor.
7. A badly told joke (storytelling - how the build-up process works. Work with pauses).
Nothing shows a man's character
more than what he laughs at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can tell more about a person by what
he says about others than you can by
what others say about him.
Audrey Hepburn
If you think your belief is based upon reason,
you will support it by argument rather than
by persecution, and will abandon it if
the argument goes against you.
But if your belief is based upon faith,
you will realize that argument is useless,
and will therefore resort to force.
Bertrand Russell
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
Samuel Becket
Listen with the intent to understand,
not the intent to reply.
Stephen Covey
There is an almost universal tendency, to suspect
the good faith of a man who holds opinions
that differ from our own opinions. It obviously
endangers the freedom and objectivity of our
discussion if we attack a person instead of
attacking an opinion, or more precisely, a theory.
Karl Popper
My point is not that religion itself is
the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist
attacks, but that religion is the principal label,
and the most dangerous one, by which a 'they'
as opposed to a 'we' can be identified at all.
Richard Dawkins
Intelligence is measured by a person's
ability to see validity within both sides
of contradicting arguments.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
No people have risen who thought only of rights.
Only those did so who thought of duties.
Mahatma Gandhi
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate,
only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did, but
people will never forget how you made dem feel.
Maya Angelou
In order for the truth to be heard, it must
be spoken with love. No matter how wise
and true a spoken word will not be conveyed
to someone if it's spoken in anger.
Leo Tolstoy
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