Authentic Communication Quotes

#1. My disorder thrives in isolation -
my recovery grows in authentic communication.

Christina Sophia Pearson

#2. Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes hearts capable of understanding the languages of all, as he re-establishes the bridge of authentic communication between earth and Heaven.

Pope Benedict XVI

#3. People heal from their pain when they have an authentic connection with another human being.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#4. We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

Clayton Christensen

#5. Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

Gordon Lightfoot

#6. If the content of your speech is not authentic, talking or texting on a device doesn't mean you're communicating with another person.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#7. Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feelings and needs. Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

Riane Eisler

#8. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

Kevin Bacon

#10. Authentic love is soft, smooth, easy, it's laughter to the soul, it's communication, it's respect, it's an unconditional love without envy or malice.

Colishia S. Benjamin

#11. You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn't wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I'm hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it's a joy that very few people experience.

Ben Hogan

#12. Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

Hans Haacke

#13. These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.

Ray Bradbury

#14. Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible.

Paulo Freire

#15. My father said, You are a spirit. Where did you die?
and we were equally alive. I thought to correct him
but he was not in his perfect mind.

Katharine Whitcomb

#16. I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#17. Don't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me!

Eric Thomas

#18. I think these days, new artists have a tendency to try to cut corners.

Jason Mraz

#19. Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.

Seth Laron

#20. Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

Georges Bataille

#21. The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#22. I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

Richard Rohr