E. M. Forster Quotes

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

There's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

For communication to have meaning it must have a life. It must transcend "you and me" and become "us." If I truly communicate, I see in you a life that is not me and partake of it. And you see and partake of me. In a small way we then grow out of our old selves and become something new. To have this kind of sharing I cannot enter into a conversation clutching myself. I must enter into it with loose boundaries. I must give myself to the relationship, and be willing to be what grows out of it.

Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

COMMUNICATION: If I had to pick a first rule of communication-the one practice above all others that opens the door to connecting with others-it would be to look for common ground. Too often people see communication as the process of transmitting massive amounts of information to other people. But that's the wrong picture. Communication is a journey. The more that people have in common, the better the chance that they can take that journey together.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

I was a pen pal with one guy, a long time ago. I think we only wrote to each other twice. We didn't really keep it up that long. But, I love it. I think it's really sweet and very creative and freeing, when you get to put a pen to paper, 'cause you don't really do it that much these days, with all this technology.

Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

Communication works for those who work at it.

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.