#communication

Stay open to opportunity -- you never know where your next important connection will be made. ↗

#communication #inspirational #opportunity #attitude

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue. ↗

You can only pretend that you're already dead and thus free yourself up to focus on three things: 1) finding and killing the enemy, 2) communicating the situation and resulting actions to adjacent units and higher headquarters, and 3) triaging and treating your wounded. If you love your men, you naturally think about number three first, but if you do you're wrong. The grim logic of combat dictates that numbers one and two take precedence. ↗

— Donovan Campbell

#communication

Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a person courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels the will to endurance. It is not merely a physical development then. Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation of the whole person, and while perfecting the body as an instrument of the mind, it also makes the mind itself a more refined instrument for the search and communication of truth…. ↗

— Pope Pius XII

#sports-inspirational #communication

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#trust #change

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#power-of-words #communication

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ↗

— Abraham Harold Maslow

#self-help #communication

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#conversation #diplomacy #communication

Self-consciousness kills communication. ↗

— Rick Steves

#communication #confidence #self-consciousness #speech #travel

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours. ↗