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Communication Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door."
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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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"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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"Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?"
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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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"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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"The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication."
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"Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time."
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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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"So open questions to understand. Closed questions to confirm and gain commitment."
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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 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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"Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?"
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"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
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"Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment."
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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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"Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say."
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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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"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave."
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"It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open."
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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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"Communication is everyone's panacea for everything."
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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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"The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers."
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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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"We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound."
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"Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
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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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"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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"Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye."
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"The weaker the argument the louder and more frequent the rhetoric."
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"Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump."
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"Don't just be selling, be connecting."
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"Points of views that are expressed on Twitter don't intend to offend, but rather defend and open the conversation up to everyone so that no one has to pretend."
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"I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things."
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"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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"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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"It is true that words drop away, and that the important things are often left unsaid. The important things are learned in faces, in gestures, not in our locked tongues. The true things are too big or too small, or in any case is always the wrong size to fit in the template called language."
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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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"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
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"I'm dense when it comes to discouragement."
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"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
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