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Communication Quotes
"Nature has given to men one tongue but two ears that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak."
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"This is just a nigger talkin', an' a busted-back nigger. So it don't mean nothing, see? You couldn't remember it anyways. I seen it over an' over-a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference."
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"Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time."
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"A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words."
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"Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall."
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"In communications, familiarity breeds apathy."
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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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"The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security."
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"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
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"It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required."
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"Incidentally, it's easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people."
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"Many can argue not many converse."
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"Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue."
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"Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light."
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"The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous."
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"Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side."
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"The words you speak reveal the heart you have."
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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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"To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context."
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"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."
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"We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols."
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"So open questions to understand. Closed questions to confirm and gain commitment."
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"Percy: Dad-Poseidon: Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works.Percy: I'm praying, I'm talking to you, right?Poseidon: Oh...yes. Good point."
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"There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy."
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"Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment."
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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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"Communication is everyone's panacea for everything."
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"There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door."
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"The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication."
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"Don't just be selling, be connecting."
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"Be extremely careful when using irony: bear in mind that irony might be an overture for sarcasm."
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"Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you."
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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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"You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape."
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"It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open."
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"We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound."
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"The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
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"If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems."
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"A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them."
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"Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality."
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"I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons."
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"Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten to fly planes into skyscrapers. We never threaten suicide bombs. We are very gentle people. All we do is use words to talk about things like the cosmos, the origin of the universe, evolution, the origin of life. What's there to be frightened of? It's just an opinion."
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"Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power."
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"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave."
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"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
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"Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye."
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"Fill your mind before you empty your mouth."
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"The weaker the argument the louder and more frequent the rhetoric."
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"But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to."
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