Everyone Communicates, Few Connect Quotes

“People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment, you create trust.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“When I want to really get to know someone, I ask three questions. People’s answers to these give me great insight into someone’s heart. The questions are: What do you dream about? What do you sing about? What do you cry about?”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“Tone, inflection, timing, volume, pacing—everything you do with your voice communicates something and has the potential to help you connect to or disconnect from others when you speak.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“people with charisma possess an outward focus instead of an inward one. They pay attention to other people, and they desire to add value to them.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“INTEGRITY—Did I do my best? EXPECTATION—Did I please my sponsor? RELEVANCE—Did I understand and relate to the audience? VALUE—Did I add value to the people? APPLICATION—Did I give people a game plan? CHANGE—Did I make a difference?”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“Connectors create an experience everyone enjoys.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“A cheerful heart is good medicine.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“People don’t remember what we think is important; they remember what they think is important.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” That may be true. But it’s also true that you can feed a horse salt and make him thirsty.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“communication comes from the Latin word communis, meaning “common.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“If you want to win over another person, first win his heart, and the rest of him is likely to follow.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“when you find yourself, you find your audience.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“be sure your communication goes beyond words. How can you do that? By connecting on four levels: visually, intellectually, emotionally, and verbally.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.” —STEVE JOBS”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“Here’s the bottom line on charisma. You don’t have to be gorgeous, a genius, or a masterful orator to possess presence and to connect with others. You just need to be positive, believe in yourself, and focus on others.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“What you are speaks so loudly that I can’t hear what you say.” —RALPH WALDO EMERSON”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“If you’re going to connect, people need to know that you understand them.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“NO NOTES. This was truly an oral event. Storytellers didn’t read their stories; they told them, which allowed for eye contact.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“If you want people to remember what you say, you need to say the right thing at the right moment in the right way!”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“If you want to get your message across, you have to learn how to communicate in someone else’s world.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“Hundreds can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“You just need to be positive, believe in yourself, and focus on others.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“If you know something without having lived it, your audience experiences a credibility gap.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“Children now log about twenty-two thousand hours watching television by age nineteen, more than twice the time spent in school.3”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“We live in an impatient culture. We use drive-through windows to buy meals, pick up our dry cleaning, complete banking transactions, and order prescriptions. I think Lisa Thorne’s comment on my blog describes a lot of us: “The good news is I move fast; the bad news is I often move alone.”4 Everybody is in a hurry, but that prevents most of us from connecting with others effectively. If you want to connect with people, you need to slow down.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“before I discovered that helping myself made me more capable of helping others. That’s one of the reasons I tell people that to add value to others, they must make themselves more valuable. You can’t give something you don’t have. You can’t tell what you don’t know. You can’t share what you don’t feel. No one gives out of a vacuum.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently

“A Jewish proverb says, “The wise does at once what the fool does at last.” Too often, we wait for the “perfect moment” to initiate with others. It has been my experience that the perfect moment never arrives. Initiating a conversation with someone often feels awkward. Offering help to someone means risking rejection. Giving to others can lead to misunderstanding. You won’t feel ready or comfortable in those moments. You just have to learn to get past those feelings of awkwardness or insecurity. As former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt said, “We must do that which we think we cannot.” The people who connect with others are the ones who go ahead and do what the rest of us never quite got around to.”
― John C. Maxwell, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently