Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?

It's important for people to give every leader the chance to step forward and look for ways to have dialogue.

I've always found that if you listen to people you can find common ground.

Try honest to see things from the other person's point of view.

That's pretty much what every scene is about, getting people to see your point of view. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

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

I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically different from mine.

Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.

The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.

To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

Communication is an issue where we can improve, and if I can do anything to help, I am happy to.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

If you can sing together, you can live together.

If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts.

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.