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Communication Quotes
"Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery."
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"Do not give much of your fears to the knife that cuts to bring out blood. Instead, fear the unseen knife that cuts deeper than the knife you see! The unseen knife that inflicts pain in the heart and leaves its indelible footprints on our minds! The unseen knife that is sharper enough to either unite or make all things fall apart. Fear this knife: words! It can make or mar you greatly or badly!"
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"In the beginning [in older days], if I were to say something that hurt the other person, I would turn it around by telling him, 'Dear brother, my mind has been this way from the start!!!' So the other person then becomes happy."
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"There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don't understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced."
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"I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters at empty tables during my breaks at the Italian restaurant. It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life."
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"The sound of the words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside."
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"Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages."
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"If the skill of participatory listening came effortlessly and easy for everyone, there would not be so many misunderstandings, communication breakdowns, irritations, and frustrations."
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"We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding."
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"The problem with communication is the illusion that is has been accomplished."
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"Do not share your thoughts with people who think that what you are thinking is not worth thinking."
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"Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear."
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"Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together."
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"In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages. And it is just this transition from tongue to hand that has permitted humans to regain the ability-lost, according to Josephus, since Eden-to communicate with the animals."
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"Human life is not for suffering criticism. If it is the truth and there is no nagging or insistence upon it, others will accept it in their hearts. And if it is the truth and you nag or insist upon it, it will not touch others."
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"Not every single way of saying the right thing is right."
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"Know the other person's viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence."
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"I don't like hello. It makes me sound like I have dementia, like I've never heard a phone ring before and I don't know what's supposed to happen next. Hello?"
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"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers."
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"It's hard to communicate anything exactly and that's why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."
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"The value is not in the noise one makes on socialmedia but the voice - the message being heard."
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"Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion."
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"Your unwillingness to change to my view point is purely on the justifiable basis that you have your own strongly held beliefs about important life issues."
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"There should always be a deliberate crafting and packaging of the words you speak so that they produce the kind of results you desire. Enough research has been done in every religion and belief system to support the truth that words have power to create or destroy. This is the reason why all major religions say their prayers. However, your words can only be as powerful and as effective as their sponsor. The words must possess the right substance."
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"Without words meaning anything, we stop meaning anything. It's getting to the point where nobody means what they say or says what they really mean."
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"Effective communication requires active listening skills."
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"It's true what they say, that words are the true weapons. Those who fight with steel are limited to the strength of their arm, the reach of their blade, and the timing of their strike; but those who fight with persuasion know no limits " not time, nor status, nor chance."
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"When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation."
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"Sometimes a loved one might not 'spit' the message in the most tender or poetic fashion that suits you, but don't allow a rugged style to blind you from a loving intent. It's the spirit of the message one must receive beyond [the] perception of one's senses; be mindful of hearing with the heart."
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"We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people's minds."
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"Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons."
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"Sharing silence between us. Sometimes is all you can share."
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"The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity."
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"Talk to strangers politely. You don't how many of them will become your close companions."
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"Anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody."
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"You just gotta tell her, man,' I said. 'You just gotta say, "Angela, I really like you, but there's something you need to know: when we go to my house and hook up, we'll be watched by the twenty-four hundred eyes of twelve hundred black Santas."
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"The language of the heart is mankind's main common language."
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"Talking to strangers is very panic fear, to be fearless and good communicator in long term try talking to strangers with courage like you already know them."
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"Align your voice value with the tone, pace, and pitch of your listeners will help you connect on all levels."
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"Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless."
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"Then she called Gansey.It rang twice, three times, and then: "Hello?"He sounded boyish and ordinary. Blue asked, "Did I wake you up?"She heard Gansey fumble for and scrape up his wireframes."No," he lied, "I was awake.""I called you by accident anyway. I meant to call Congress, but your number was one off.""Oh?""Yeah, because yours has 6-6-5 in it." She paused. "Get it?""Oh, you.""6-6-5. One number different. Get it?""Yeah, I got it."
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"She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said."Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats."Anaesthesia looked relieved. "Thigh?" she asked, "or breast?"
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"Are you speaking your mind or expressing your feelings?"
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"I just want to understand how people misunderstand each other!"
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"Cath probably should have texted Abel by now, just to tell him that she'd made it - but she wanted to wait until she felt more breezy and nonchalant. You can't take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are."
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"If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish."
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"When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me."
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"One hears a great many things, true, but can gather nothing definite."
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