Best communication & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

“Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such exposing of self to dangerous mysteries, such destruction of the understanding as was required to become the slave of unseen powers, did not matter because the communicant was only a woman, in herself an undetermined cipher - a nothing.”

Has Beens Self Matter Used Understanding Mystery Dangerous Communication Destruction Slave Unseen Convenience Exposing Inaccessible Ciphers

Author:Laura Riding

“Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.”

Art Self Reality Social Situation Communication Art Is Connections Sufficient Distortion Corrections Self Sufficient Modification Unendurable

Author:Jean Tinguely

“Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one's say, or to speak honestly to a friend truths that go deep and hurt these require self-affirmation, self-assertion, and even at times aggression. ... My experience in psychotherapy convinces me that the act which requires the most courage is the simple communication, unpropelled by rage or anger, of one's deepest thoughts to another.”

Self Speak Hurt Simple Groups Communication Rage Honestly Convince Aggression Indifferent Affirmation Hostile Assertion Psychotherapy Self Affirmation Deepest Thoughts

Book:Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

“People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.”

People Thinking Way Self Individual Ability Changed Communication Mass Self Absorbed

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“There is no such thing as a secret among our leaders; communication is very open and honest, and if it's not, then it can become seemingly brutal. You've heard my arguments for love, friends, and authenticity, but there are the deceivers, the manipulators, the control freaks, and the self-appointed teachers in the Body who would love to use our system for their own selfish purposes. We all know the realities of the old sin nature.”

Ifs Knows Self Use Body Reality Purpose Sin Secret Leader Teacher Heard Honest Communication Argument Selfish Authenticity Freak Brutal Control Freak Deceiver Manipulator

Author:Ted Haggard

“Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could precail of the ideology of capital.”

“The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion.”

May Important Self Use Compassion Communication Developing Nonviolent Communication Self Compassion

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.”

People Firsts Self Special Communication Mark Communicate

Book:Selections from the Essays

Source: Selections from the Essays

“Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope.”

Source: The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

“I think that actors are terrible communicators as people by and large. I think our tendency is to kind of be self-centered and tune people out and just kind of get really me-focused, so I think communication for actors is a big challenge actually.”

People Thinking Kind Self Bigs Actors Challenges Communication Terrible Focused Tendencies Tunes Get Real Self Centered Communicators Big Challenges

Author:Rainn Wilson

“As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.”

“The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the audience as well as the participant, and the purpose of it is to activate the parts of the mind that are not activated by everyday activity ... 'Magic' becomes the development of techniques that allow communication with hidden portions of the self, and with hidden portions of all other islands in this 'psychic sea.'”

“Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings toward action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams.”

Self States Dream Action Communication Impulse Rising Waking Closest Spontaneous Inner Self

Author:Seth

“Our Nation has a diverse and extremely rich cultural heritage. It is a source of pride and strength to millions of Americans who look to the arts for inspiration, communication and the opportunity for creative self-expression.”

Looks Art Self Inspiration Opportunity Nations Millions Creative Rich Expression Communication Source Pride Heritage Diverse Self Expression Cultural Heritage

Book:Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

“If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.”

“For communication to have meaning it must have a life. It must transcend "you and me" and become "us." If I truly communicate, I see in you a life that is not me and partake of it. And you see and partake of me. In a small way we then grow out of our old selves and become something new. To have this kind of sharing I cannot enter into a conversation clutching myself. I must enter into it with loose boundaries. I must give myself to the relationship, and be willing to be what grows out of it.”

Ifs Way Giving Kind Self Grows Willing Communication Conversation Communicate Boundaries Something New Old Self

Book:Notes to Myself

Source: Notes to Myself

“Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it.”

Humans Self Body Individual Effort Attention Fields Communication Conscious Cameras Betrayal Documents Human Body Examination Self Conscious

Book:Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life

Source: Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life

“The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.”

Two Self States Existence Achieve Emotional Communication Unity Partners Subjectivity Ambiguous Intoxication Passivity

Book:The Marquis de Sade: an essay by Simone de Beauvoir

Source: The Marquis de Sade: an essay by Simone de Beauvoir

“Be a communicator, not a self-righteous proselytizer or preacher. Many people are only concerned with expressing themselves, which isn't necessarily communication.”

People Self Communication Concerned Righteous Preacher Self Righteous Communicators

Author:Sharon Gannon

“Love is never giving up and yet a lot of surrender. Self-care. Truth. Trust. Openness. Growth. Courage. Faith. Collaboration. Compassion. Communication. Affection. Support. Passion. Joy. Warmth. Mindfulness. Rigorous self-work. Sympatico, empathy, flow. Forgiveness.”

Giving Self Care Joy Passion Growth Love Is Compassion Support Communication Giving Up Mindfulness Empathy Flow Affection Surrender Openness Warmth Collaboration Self Care Never Giving Up

Author:Claudia Black

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

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Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

“For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.”

People Trying May Said Two Self Communication Thousand Conscious Communicate

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Self-consciousness kills communication.”

Self Consciousness Communication Self Consciousness

Book:Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2016: The Travel Skills Handbook

Source: Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2016: The Travel Skills Handbook

“Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.”

Self Enemy Clear Doubt Communication Surface Confusion Self-doubt Clear Communication

Book:Duma Key: A Novel

Source: Duma Key: A Novel

“Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.”

Way Self Past Film Used Black White Communication Including Available Mediums Used To Be Black And White

Book:The Sadness of Antonioni

Source: The Sadness of Antonioni

“I still think of myself as a house. Ravan tried to fix this problem of self-image, as he called it. To teach me to phrase my communication in terms of a human body. To say: let us hold hands instead of let us hold kitchens. To say put our heads together and not put our parlors together. But it is not as simple as replacing words anymore. Ravan is gone. My hearth is broken.”

Thinking Humans Stills Self Problem Body Hands Together House Term Simple Teach Gone Communication Broken Phrases Kitchen Human Body Holding Hands Parlor

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.”

Believe Humans Real Self Bigs Lasts Next I Believe Business Technology Communication Internet Activity Notion Wave Instant Mail Publishing Extensions Blogging Bloggers Instant Messaging

Author:Eric Schmidt

“When you forget yourself and your fear, when you get beyond self-consciousness because your mind is thinking about what you are trying to communicate, you become a better communicator”

Thinking Trying Mind Self Forget Consciousness Communication Communicate Forget You Self Consciousness Communicators

Author:Peggy Noonan

“Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.”

Self Language Expression Communication Fulfillment Thought Provoking Self Expression

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.”

Self Whole Problem Communication

Author:E. B. White

“The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.”

“Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.”

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton: By the Late Rev. Frederick W. Robertson ...

“Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires.”

Inspirational Mean Self Desire Purpose Practice Communication Shapes Ideals Letters Method Reform Humiliation Embarrassing

Book:The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

Source: The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

“Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.”

World Want Writing Self Mother This World Expression Communication Diaries Self Expression

Author:Richard Peck

“Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.”

People Giving Writing Doe Different Self Song Process Imagine Communication Involved Mass Aspect Pursuit Performing Poetry Is Songwriting Solitary Lofty

Author:Patti Smith

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