Prince Quotes

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.

That audience is there for me.

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

You've got to be vulnerable when you're talking to kids. There's nothing worse than some adult standing up there just talking down to some kid. You can't work that way.

When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.

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

When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

We cannot really communicate with our fans.

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

Acting with someone else, I can't tell how good they are because if I'm doing my job right, I'm just fully invested in everything that person's saying.

I have a very open line of communication with both my children.

People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them - I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.

I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?

Don’t talk to the people until you’ve listened to the people.

I talk to the players, either individually or as a group, what I'm feeling, and I think the players appreciate that. And I think they respond to that.

I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience.