Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 11

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy''spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Within-group conflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

If we manage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Speec his human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Silence is a true friend that never betrays.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

Silence is the mother of truth.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.

It''s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Opposites attract and then can''t stand each other.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

You can''t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Never mistake silence for agreement.

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Listening well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I''m not sure yourealize that what you heard isn''t what I meant.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven''t thought ofyet.