Quotes About Two Way Communication

#1. One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.

John W. Gardner

#2. Training is a loop, a two-way communication in which an event at one end of the loop changes events at the other, exactly like a cybernetic feedback system; yet many psychologists treat their work as something they do to a subject, not with the subject.

Karen Pryor

#3. All that we know about the interaction between leaders and constituents or followers tells us that communication and influence flow in both directions; and in that two-way communication, nonrational, nonverbal, and unconscious elements play their part.

John W. Gardner

#4. 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

#5. Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other side suffer.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#6. But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it ... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

Roger Sessions

#7. Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.

Bernard Werber

#8. There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to begin with and second if we do, we forget to put a clear request after it, or we use vague words like appreciate, listen, recognize, know, be real, and stuff like that.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#9. If you appreciate, perpetuate and explore your own dreams,
then you'll know that dream isn't a one-way communication.

Toba Beta

#10. Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

Leo Rosten

#11. Do you know what every instructor in the world wants from you? He or she really, really wants you to do two things: Demonstrate that you have understood the course material and write intelligently about your subject.

Scribendi

#12. Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

Maya Angelou

#13. Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.

Joseph Stowell

#14. Relationships are an art form created by two or more individuals who have similar or complementary visions, passions, and ambitions.

Asa Don Brown

#15. Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior.

Lord Chesterfield

#16. Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Jeff Daly

#17. Number one, cash is king ... number two, communicate ... number three, buy or bury the competition.

Jack Welch

#18. Many ritually abusive cults deliberately divide the personality system down the middle of the head, making sure that there is no communication between the two sides. "Left side" parts might be instructed to speak to no one other than the perpetrators.

Alison Miller

#19. 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

#20. A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial of boys with autism found that two to three servings of cruciferous vegetables a day improves social interaction, abnormal behaviour and verbal communication - within a matter of weeks.

Michael Greger

#21. Communication is really a two-way process with listenining being as important as speaking. Enhancing one's listening skills is therefore as important as enhancing one's speaking skills.

Vishwas Chavan

#22. Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.

Isaac D'Israeli

#23. The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. ... Every separation is a link.

Simone Weil

#24. It's putting the aesthetic of a design before the function of a design. Those two things need to be in balance. Something can look beautiful and read beautifully but those two things need to be in balance. If a design is in the way of the actual communication, it's ten times worse.

Denise Bosler

#25. Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child's conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs.

Billy Graham

#26. Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Simone Weil

#27. A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

Seth Godin

#28. If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do we want the other person's reasons to be for doing as we request?

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#29. When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.

David D. Burns

#30. Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data every two days

Eli Pariser

#31. The communication between the brain and the heart is a two-way dialogue.

Mindie Kniss

#32. My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.

Robert Lyn Nelson

#33. Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.

T. Boone Pickens

#34. Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

Karl Kraus

#35. Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#36. Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction.

Andrew Skurka

#37. Lack of communication can drive a spike between two people wider than any physical distance.

Mark W. Boyer

#38. Communication is a bridge to two or more people to understand ...

Jinnul Jr.

#39. Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking to oneself? Is it any wonder that language is an area of such interest in psychology?
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Mort W. Lumsden

#40. Today they have to be three-dimensional. Technology's changed, the communication, the marketing and advertising community supports beautiful girls that can be articulate and smart. And also Anna Wintour doesn't want to sit next to some girl who can't say two words.

Michael Flutie

#41. Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

John Petrucci

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

David W. Earle

#43. Beneath the uniformity that unites us in communication there is a chaotic personal diversity of connections, and, for each of us, the connections continue to evolve. No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#44. There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

Jessamyn West

#45. A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.

Dale Ludwig

#46. I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.

Thomas Gold

#47. We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Epictetus

#48. The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.

Simone De Beauvoir

#49. It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.

Kahlil Gibran

#50. Communication is a two-way street, not a highway.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#51. Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

George Lucas

#52. Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

Leonard Bernstein

#53. Remember that any functioning communication, and communication is a two-street; it requires my listening and my speaking. Our relationship with the Lord is no different. It requires my listening to God through a study of His word, and my speaking to God through diligent prayer.

Teresa Hampton

#54. Searching for a mentor is similar to searching for a spouse: you two need to share common values, concerns, experiences, communication style, and, of course, have time to invest into meaningful conversations with one another.

Anna Stevens

#55. No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another

Robert Barr

#56. Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which you are compelled to speak. On these occasions alone is speech better than silence; on all others, it is better to be silent than to speak.

Isocrates

#57. Communication is not a two way street.
It is a bridge.
Either you have one or you build one.
It's about connecting, not correcting.

Farshad Asl

#58. As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

E.B. White

#59. For communication to be effective, especially in matters as life-defining as the gospel message, truth and relevance are the two indispensable wings on which it is borne.

Ravi Zacharias

#60. The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man; it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow.

Trevanian

#61. Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.

John C. Maxwell

#62. communication is a two-party affair which aims at passing on or receiving a specific piece of information.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#63. News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.

Rupert Murdoch

#64. If you speak three languages you're trilingual. If you speak two languages you're bilingual. If you speak the language of the opposite sex, you can communicate.

Julieanne O'Connor

#65. The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.

Georges Simenon

#66. Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.

Vinod Khosla