skillful communication Quotes

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

On the whole, and providing one is in good spirits and feeling reasonably bright, it is not hard to converse for a short space of time on subjects about which one knows little, and it is indeed often amusing to see how cunningly one can steer the conversational barque, hoisting and lowering her sails, tacking this way and that to avoid reefs, and finally racing feverishly for home with the outboard engine making a loud and cheerful noise.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment. It's what's between us and chaos.

If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it.

If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.