The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. (Dorothy Nevill)

At best, 'communication' is the name for those practices that compensate for the fact that we can never be each other. (John Durham Peters)

You can communicate without motivating, but it's impossible to motivate without communicating. (John Thompson)

If you communicate well, you have the competition beat by a mile. The question then is whether or not you're fostering good communication in everything you do. (Kathy Maixner)

What is it you see that I don't?"; "How do you see this differently and why?"; "Please help me understand from your perspective." To ask these questions requires that one no longer need to have the best or last answer. Expanding one's understanding becomes more important than being right or getting one's point across." (Ann McGee-Cooper)

You may not be responsible for your name, but you are responsible for what men think when they call your name.-Croft M. Pentz

Where you go and what you do tell people what you are.-Croft M. Pentz

God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.-Croft M. Pentz

We are mirrors to reflect the glory of God; a mirror never calls attention to itself unless there are flaws in it.-Croft M. Pentz

We spend half of our lives recovering from the effects of the other half.-Croft M. Pentz

When many work together for a goal, great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed by a single colony of ants. (Saskya Pandita 1182 - 1251)

We are all angels with only one wing; we can only fly while embracing each other. (Luciano de Crescenzo)

If your group doesn’t laugh at least four out of five days, you have a real challenge on your hands. Attack it fast because productivity goes up when people love what they do. It goes down when they are not having fun. Small children laugh 400 times daily and adults do so only 15 times a day. (William Blades)

We are born for co-operation, as are the feet, the hands, the eye-lids, and the upper and lower jaws. (Marcus Aurelius)

When team members regard each other with mutual respect, differences are utilized and are considered strengths rather than weaknesses. The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant. (Stephen Covey)

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get." -- Ray Kroc

"When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky." -- Dr. Armand Hammer

Too many of us take pleasure in discouraging people by pointing out their mistakes and letting excited about their failures rather than focusing on their strengths and getting excited about the possibilities. (John Maxwell)

Good advice is beyond price. (Old proverb)

The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well. (Peter Drucker)

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. (Henri Frederic Amiel)

If you are always worried about how you are performing a task, about how others perceive your performance, you will never perform it well. Performance requires forgetting yourself. (Richard Saul Wurman)

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Everyone needs to know what is expected of them. Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying. (Merry Browne)

Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning. (Peter Senge)

"Evaluation of performance, merit rating or annual review nourishes short-term performance, annihilates long-term planning,
builds fear, demolishes teamwork, nourishes rivalry and politics. It leaves people bitter, crushed, bruised, battered, desolate, despondent, dejected, feeling inferior, some even depressed, unable to comprehend why they are inferior. "
(W.Edwards Deming 1900 - 93)

The golfer who doesn’t count his shots is only there for the walk. (Source Unknown)

If it is not truthful and not helpful, don’t say it. If it is truthful and not helpful, don’t say it. If it is helpful and not truthful, don’t say it. If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time. (The Buddha)

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have
done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; who strives valiantly; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. (Theodore Roosevelt 1858 - 1919)"

God doesn’t give people talents that he doesn’t want them to use. (Iron Eagle)

People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it. (Howard W. Newton)

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. (Jim Ryun)

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Never retract, never explain, never apologise. Get things done and let them howl. (Nellie McClung)

"I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't
take it personally. Instead, find out what's needed and fix it. If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don't take it personally. Find another tie or find another girlfriend. (Marilyn vos Savant)"

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. (Francois Fenelon)

The secret to giving advice is after it is given, to be perfectly indifferent to whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. (Hannah Whitall Smith)

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. (Mary Kay Ash)

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises—but only performance is reality. (Harold S. Geneen)

What gets recognized gets reinforced and what gets reinforced gets repeated. (Source Unknown)

"A non-doer is very often a critic - that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how
the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change. (Wayne Dyer) "