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Communication Quotes
"What's the book like?""Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!"
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"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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"It's communication - that's what theatre is all about."
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"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
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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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"One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them."
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"No good ever came from not talking."
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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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"Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason."
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"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."
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"The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."
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"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."
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"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."
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"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well."
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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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"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack."
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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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"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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"Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time."
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"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
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"A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings."
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"Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language."
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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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"To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context."
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"There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door."
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"Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality."
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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 word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it."
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"I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally."
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"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
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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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"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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"I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects."
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"What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same."
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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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"So open questions to understand. Closed questions to confirm and gain commitment."
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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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"Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump."
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"A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them."
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"Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever."
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"All those big words produce disgust today."
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"Many can argue not many converse."
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"When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures."
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"In communications, familiarity breeds apathy."
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"She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake."
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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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