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Communication Quotes
"Language is a finding-place not a hiding place."
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"The words you use can destroy people's confidence or provoke their greatness. Use your words to add value."
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"How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive."
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"In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood."
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"I never hear about dear Mike. I wrote Ellen Greene and asked about him and she replyed and never mentioned Mike but told me all about her roomatism. As if I cared about her roomatism."
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"Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing."
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"Word Powers:A beautiful bitch has four legs, not two. Even terms of, so called, endearment have unintended manifestations. Guard your grill."
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"Criticism addressed to a person can only be of benefit if it was said in the right way and at the right time."
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"To speak in a way that causes the other person to get disturbed is the greatest crime. On the contrary, if someone else speaks in that way, you should suppress it; that is considered a human."
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"Your fangs aren't as sharp as your tongue."
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"Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more."
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"It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth."
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"Talk only if it's worth, else it harms your worth only."
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"If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language, one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it."
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"Be careful what you say and do around a writer, your words and actions may become material."
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"Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they'll always end up being twisted by others."
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"Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!"
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"In this world, no word is being uselessly spoken."
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"They weren't making much sense; she decided they were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses, but which can go on for ever, if both parties are willing."
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"Sametimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them."
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"Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything."
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"Women love with their ears, men with their eyes."
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"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
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"Words speak to the mind through the ears, actions speak to the mind through the eye."
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"Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear."
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"What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did."
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"But could words bethe end of me?"
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"We must yield to the power of words. Even God has chosen words to communicate with his creatures like us."
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"Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance."
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"Promise large promise is the soul of an advertisement."
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"[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. "Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we're out of purgatory for the weekend." Maybe later, I murmur, still distracted by the day's previous events."So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested."Huh? I say."
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"He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very special occasions, which this wasn't.) But he described our shortcomings, physical, mental, moral, and genetic, in great and insulting detail.But somehow I was not insulted; I became greatly interested in studying his command of language. I wished that we had had him on our debate team."
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"If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear."
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"Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back."
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"He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought."
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"With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings."
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"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people."
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"When we don't tell those we love about what's really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories."
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"If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word."
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"Don't be shy to say "I am sorry"; Never feel too big to say "Please forgive me"; Don't think it's unnecessary to say "thank you"; Never feel bad to admit "I am wrong"! That's a good tactics is communication!"
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"He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?"
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"The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life."
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"I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial words-and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant "I acknowledge that I've heard what you said; please continue."
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"Let us use words carefully, because words can betray and kill.['A gap of silence']"
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"A phone call should be a convenience to the caller, not an inconvenience to the called."
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"On this platform of peace, we can create a languageto translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other."
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"Become more skilful in how you use words " towards yourself or others."
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"A man without words is a man without thought."
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