What You Do vs. What You Say
“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hearing What Isn’t Said
“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.”
- Peter F. Drucker
I Am What I Think You Think I Am.
“I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.”
- Aaron Bleiberg and Harry Leubling
We Are What Other People Say We Are
“It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.”
- Eric Hoffer
The Words We Use
“Like paths and alleys overgrown with hardy, rank-growing weeds, the words we use are overgrown with our individual, private, provincial associations, which tend to choke the meaning.”
- Stefan Themerson
The Illusion of Communication
“The problem with communication … is the illusion that it has been accomplished.”
- George Bernard Shaw
Listen Completely
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
- Ernest Hemingway
