Honest Communication Quotes

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Speak from your heart, not your head. You speak from your head, you can wind up getting yourself in a lot of crap. You speak from your heart, I think you're pretty safe.

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

There's something I'm afraid to say to you too early, but I'd be a fool to wait too late.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.

I just want to say what I think and encourage others to say what they think.

My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.

I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.

I have a great relationship with my kids. We're very honest with each other, and I'm very proud that we are absolutely, incredibly close. That to me is more important than anything.

Do not put cleverness in front of the communication.

To have an idea meritocracy, one needs to do three things. First, they have to put their honest thoughts on the table, for everyone to look at and everyone to work through. Second, they need to have thoughtful disagreement, by which there are quality exchanges, in which there's open mindedness and the realization that no one has all the right answers. And you can work through that and get to better answers because good collective decision making is better than any individual decision making. And third, you have to have ways of getting past the disagreements if they remain.

It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

You have to be honest, even when you are upset with your child. Your intentions must be clear. You must never lie to your child.

I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.

Open, honest communication is the best foundation for any relationship, but remember that at the end of the day it's not what you say or what you do, but how you make people feel that matters the most.

If I don't think something's worth saying, I don't think it's quite there, I'd rather just not say it, to be honest. In that case, I'd rather wait 'till the thought is ready, 'till I feel like I'm happy with everything.

It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.

Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

I don't feel I insult people. I try and get to the facts and I don't feel I insult people.