"Every time we speak, we choose and..." - Quote by Jim Rohn
Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.
More by Jim Rohn
“The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy.”
“Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action.”
“The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.”
More on Communication
“Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.”
“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.”
“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”
More on Behavior
“Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than be being caused by their own choices and behavior. Thus there is said to be an 'epidemic' of teenage pregnancy, or of drug usage, as if these things were like the flu that people catch just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
“Man shows his character best in trifles.”
“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.”