Shiv Khera Quotes

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings - and the Web's a form of communications - so it generally should be good.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.

It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.

The message sent is not always the message received.

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.

There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

If what is said does not concord with what was meant, what is to be done cannot be effected.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

My job is to analyze conversations and discover why communications fail.

Most of the people who have complaints with me aren't reading me.

I thought there was something intrinsically fascinating about people who communicate for a living and are incapable of communicating in their personal lives.

Dr. Rosenberg has brought the simplicity of successful communication into the foreground. No matter what issue you're facing, his strategies for communicating with others will set you up to win every time.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say.