Espirational

Ideal Conversation

“Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.” ― Emily Post

Has someone ever told you, I don’t discuss politics and religion? That doesn’t usually mean they won’t talk about those things with anyone — just not those who disagree with them. I understand not wanting arguments and hurt feelings, but people who do not agree with us are exactly the ones we need to talkContinue reading “When did we stop talking?”

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds

“The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.” ― Michel de Montaigne The Essays: A Selection

Best Conversations

“In the best conversations, you don’t even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can’t visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments” ― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

Meeting of minds

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don’t just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.” —Theodore Zeldin

A failure to communicate

“Although we live in an information technology age, we often find ourselves in failure to communicate situations.” —Johnny Tan

Choose Your Words Wisely

“I think that the number one rule to effective communication should be ‘choose your words wisely’. This is because a simple choice of your words can make a great difference and determine whether your message would be accepted or rejected.” — Jason Maisons

Thought for today and a few of my own on being present

“When we are fully present, we have access to our greatest power, creativity and ability to communicate and perform exceptionally at whatever we are doing.” — Christopher Babson Has this time of social isolation given you greater opportunities to communicate and become closer as a family? Even for the many who are now working fromContinue reading “Thought for today and a few of my own on being present”

If you talk to a man in his language

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” —Nelson Mandela

Speaking too highly of yourself

“Speaking too highly of yourself might, at best, earn you admiration and respect, but by doing so, you are isolating yourself. You are constantly telling others how different you are from them and pushing them further away from you.” ― Dr. Prem Jagyasi