Tony Robbins Quotes

What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

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.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

Maybe almost 20 years ago, I was like, 'God, I need to be more direct.' And I found times that I could practice it when it was maybe not my family or friends or co-workers. It's a quality that's rarely disliked.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.

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

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.