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?”
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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”
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
Open your mind to think
“Before opening your mouth to talk, you should open your mind to think.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Isn’t this a beautiful day?
I know there are people who don’t like talking about the weather. They consider it shallow, trivial, a waste of time. But I will talk about the weather any day. Why? Because two (or more) people are actually talking about something. And that’s where true communication starts: by talking about something. Starting out withContinue reading “Isn’t this a beautiful day?”
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