Richard Branson Quotes

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication.

We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

Here's the problem: People have completely and utterly forgotten one thing when it comes to communication - intent.

I'm the biggest fan of face-to-face communication.

Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?

Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening?

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

When trying to communicate with each other, a husband and wife should be careful to make sure their voices and faces agree with their words.

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

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.

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.