Quotes About Communication And Change

#1. What has this book got to do with Palaeoanthropology? The short answer is 'not one tiny bit'. But it has everything to do with stress, communication and change, especially for the modern Caveman.

Carl Rosier-Jones

#2. And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

Emma Thompson

#3. Two things I've learned: 1) you simply cannot change someone's mind on certain issues and 2) some issues are so important you cannot stop trying to.

J.S.B. Morse

#4. In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.

James C. Collins

#5. [A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#6. The organization that can't communicate can't change, and the corporation that can't change is dead.

Nido R. Qubein

#7. The problem with so much religious communication is that it aims at changing our minds. The result is that we can hear the message of the preacher without necessarily heeding the message; we can listen to the "truth" and agree with it, yet not change in response to it.

Peter Rollins

#8. Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of a generous spirit & a wise heart.

Sharon Salzberg

#9. How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#10. Unless we as social change agents come from a certain kind of spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#11. Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

Josh Billings

#12. Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

Kenneth L. Pike

#13. If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

Patrick Califia

#14. This world is what we have made of it. If it is ruthless today it is because we have made it ruthless by our attitudes. If we change ourselves we can change the world, and changing ourselves begins with changing our language and methods of communication

Arun Gandhi

#15. You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power.

Karl Marx

#16. All communication must lead to change

Aristotle.

#17. It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

Paul Watson

#18. Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#20. Print, it transpired, was not just an instrument of agitation and change: now it was equally necessary to win the peace.

Andrew Pettegree

#21. The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.

Jimenez Lai

#22. It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.

Virginia Satir

#23. Isaiah 55:6-13 God's ways and thoughts are infinitely higher than those of the most brilliant human. Yet His words in Scripture communicate well enough to bring about supernatural change in those who hear its truth. The purpose of communication is not to speak, but to be heard and understood.

Sid Buzzell

#24. The moment you establish a line of communication between two points, you subtly change both. That is also true for the way the brain is affected by the mind.

David Amerland

#25. Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people

Cesar Hidalgo

#26. Make use of this tool of communication by which God speaks to us - namely, the Bible! Read it, study it, memorize it. It will change your entire life. It is not like any other book. It is a "living" book that works its way into your heart, mind, and soul.

Billy Graham

#27. Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#28. The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.

Andrew Pettegree

#29. I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.

Norval Morrisseau

#30. Progressives need a collection of proactive policies and communication techniques to get our own values out on our own terms. "War rooms" and "truth squads" must change frames, not reinforce conservative frames.

George Lakoff

#31. The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet.

Noam Chomsky

#32. That is the way convince people. Or change them and prevent them from hurting whether themselves and others. Art is the most effective form of communication.
You can use it to lift the human spirit and make them understand that there is more to life than their next drug use.

Jennifer Echols

#33. Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.

David W. Earle

#34. Old marketing was dictation ... new marketing is communication. Change from Convince & Convert to Converse & Convert!

Ted Rubin

#35. What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

Aaron Koblin

#36. Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world.

Sara Sheridan

#37. The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#38. Your feelings are cosmic communication! The good feelings mean, GOOD FOR YOU. The bad feelings are to get your attention so that you will change what you are focusing on.

Rhonda Byrne

#39. If I can listen to what he can tell me, if I can understand how it seems to him; if I can see its personal meaning for him, if I can sense the emotional flavor which it has for him, then I will be releasing potent forces of change in him.

Carl Rogers

#40. Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they are left with only an illusion of connection. This is the intimacy they so ardently seek but with these coping skills find so elusive.

David W. Earle

#41. But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Thom Mayne

#42. Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

David W. Earle

#43. The purpose of setting communication principles is to build an effective digital workplace where collaboration and sharing are the norms.

Pearl Zhu

#44. One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.

John P. Kotter

#45. You can change your world by changing your words ... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Joel Osteen

#46. The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

Harold Bloom

#47. When we change the way we communicate, we change society

Clay Shirky

#48. Now the industry is looking at the change in a very real way - to find ways of talking to the consumer much faster. Everything we have is changing with communication - from fashion to newspapers.

Donna Karan

#49. If teaching is largely about faculty-student interaction, then we have to recognize that human interaction is changing.

Jose Antonio Bowen

#50. Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.

Anita Roddick