Rick Pitino Quotes

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

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

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.

Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.

I spent over 90 percent of my time talking to people who didn’t have to listen to me.

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.

We have to teach girls communication skills.

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

Different people need different kinds of communication for it to have the same effect. That was something I had to learn.

I feel like kids are getting more and more used to communicating through a glass screen than they are face-to-face, and that worries me a little.

A big part of the challenge is teaching your kids how to have a real conversation, not a texting conversation. If they're not sitting down at the table, the art of conversation is going to go.

It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

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?

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.