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Communication Quotes
"I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet."
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"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
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"It's communication - that's what theatre is all about."
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"Life can be a misunderstanding, if we are ignorant of the right language or don't try to learn it. — If lions could speak, we would not understand them. — says Ludwig Wittgenstein. If we make an effort, however, we could manage to understand. ['Life was a misunderstanding']"
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"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid."
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"We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for. In all talking there lies a grain of contempt. Speech, it seems, was devised only for the average medium, communicable. The speaker has already vulgarized himself by speaking."
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"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."
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"One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them."
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"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."
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"Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason."
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"I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in."
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"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."
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"Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale."
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"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well."
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"Don't waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you."
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"The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication."
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"The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status."
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"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
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"It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection."
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"Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering."
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"The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."
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"A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings."
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"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
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"To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context."
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"I choose to choose few words each day. Yes! few words that count. Few words that can make impact. Few words that talk much. Few words that can make people ponder to wonder. Few words that are indelible. Few words that can leave distinctive footprints on minds. Though we may fail to mind our words, we shall never fail to mind the works of our words."
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"She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake."
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"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through."
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"Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side."
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"Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time."
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"More of your conversation would infect my brain."
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"But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools."
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"Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality."
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"The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it."
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"I don't want advice.' 'Nobody does. It's a giver's present."
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"If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum."
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"A right word counts the silence, a bad word is counted by the page."
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"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."
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"There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies."
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"There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive."
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"A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them."
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"All those big words produce disgust today."
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"It is true that words drop away, and that the important things are often left unsaid. The important things are learned in faces, in gestures, not in our locked tongues. The true things are too big or too small, or in any case is always the wrong size to fit in the template called language."
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"Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean."
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"Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle."
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"So open questions to understand. Closed questions to confirm and gain commitment."
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"Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication."
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"Communication is everyone's panacea for everything."
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"Words are dead, until action brings them life."
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"It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say."
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