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Communication Quotes
"When it occurs without having to voice it - vibin' on the same page, flowin' on the same wave, soakin' up the same light rays."
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"A rude man tells a women to stop talking too much because she is making noise. A polite man will tell this same woman that she looks so beautiful when her lip are closed. Compare and choose one! Speak politely, but be sure you get to where you are going with your words."
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"Words speak to the the mind through the ears and actions speak to the mind through the eye."
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"There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else."
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"It's very important to know when to stop explaining yourself, because not everyone with ears listens with them."
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"I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant."
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"Develop a vocabulary of uplifting and empowering words for times of uncertainty and upheaval."
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"They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another can also re-member. Why would they ever develop language? Why would they ever learn to read and write? How would they know what reading and writing were if they saw them? Or signals? Or numbers? Or anything that we use to communicate? This isn't just a matter of translating from one language to another. They don't have a language at all. We used every means we could think of to communicate with them, but they don't even have the machinery to know we're signaling. And maybe they've been trying to think to us, and they can't understand why we don't respond."
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"Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery."
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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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"Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives, words and ideas change the world."
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"Whatever the other person sees according to his view-point, you have to accept it. How can we make others accept our view-point?"
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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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"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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"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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"Coat your words with honey if you want to catch bees."
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"If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others."
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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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"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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"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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"Align your voice value with the tone, pace, and pitch of your listeners will help you connect on all levels."
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"When someone wants to give you a "piece of their mind, ask them to give you "peace from their heart instead."
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"Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing."
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"When you open your mouth, listeners are offended. When you close your mouth, the expectant are offended. If a person seeks misdoing from you they will find it regardless of whether or not you deliver."
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"God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening."
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"Positive words come from positive thoughts. It implies, when you open your mouth to talk for people to listen, you have opened your mind for them to read. Think positively; talk positively!"
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"You can save hundred words with just one look!"
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"Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we're all constantly correcting each other's grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they're going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that's precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication."
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"Silence is the unbearable repartee."
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"Critics must use clear facts and an insightful cognitive paradigm to back up their argument if they want to negate other people's thoughts and opinions about a specific person, place,and/or situation. If they use that strategy to make an counterargument with their opponents, they can always defend their position in a regular verbal dispute or a debate."
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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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"The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is our word. Our action is the energy which transmits our emotions to the eyes of others and causes a great change in their minds."
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"Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body - not too little, not too much, just right."
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"Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back."
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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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"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."
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"Language lives in the mind, moves around with the tongue and gets its meaning in action!"
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"My favourite conversations are those with the universe, I speak all that I am and the most beautiful response flies a shooting star across the sky, it's proof ~ vibrations of light have the capacity to change our world."
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"You will feel more responsible for your own words when you notice how your words can affect lives of other people. You will feel touched when you really see how your words have made their life so much better. Those are kind of words that make you known to the inhabitants of eternity."
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"Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don't keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk sensibly."
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"For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody."
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"We only shout when we neglect what silence can do."
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"You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to."
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"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."
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"Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."
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"Your body is always wherever it is; but your mind, often somewhere else! Thus, when a person talks to you, he often talks to your body, not to your mind!"
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