Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

When you consider how many people are really not good at communication in general and interviewing in specific, it's no wonder that many companies struggle to build high-quality partnerships - or even staffs.

Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.

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

Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!

In my experience, yelling at people that they are wrong and disgusting rarely wins the argument, nor changes point of view.

Not listening is the reason for so many misunderstandings and conflicts.

People don't listen to each other anymore, and I think that's why people get offended or their feelings get hurt: because you're not actually listening to the person that's giving you signals they're upset.

If your first objective in the negotiation, instead of making your argument, is to hear the other side out, that's the only way you can quiet the voice in the other guy's mind. But most people don't do that.

When you're not being heard - I can't tell you what to do when you're not being heard. I do think there is a way to move in love and get things done, though.

Listen if you want to be heard

As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills. Applying the concepts within the book will help guide the reader towards a more loving, compassionate, and nonviolent way of understanding and functioning with others, and foster more compassion in the world. I highly recommend this book.

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.

Yelling and screaming won't really get what I want from my kids.

When we speak quietly one to another things somehow get settled.

...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.

Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.

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

Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.