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Communication Quotes
"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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"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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"I don't want advice.' 'Nobody does. It's a giver's present."
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"Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle."
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"I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning."
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"Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic."
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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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"Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow."
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"Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them."
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"Silence is one great art of conversation."
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"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication."
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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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"I choose to choose few words each day. Yes! few words that count. Few words that can make impact. Few words that talk much. Few words that can make people ponder to wonder. Few words that are indelible. Few words that can leave distinctive footprints on minds. Though we may fail to mind our words, we shall never fail to mind the works of our words."
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"Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication."
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"When I did it with Johnny, it was almost a telepathic kind of communication."
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"There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive."
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"Sometimes, how a person answers a question is more important than what they actually say."
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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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"Be aware of things you say because words have power. When you speak truth. It's Beautiful. And, that beauty illuminates!"
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"Note to businesspersons and salespersons: "Be professional" does not mean "be a robot." Just be friendly and act like a real person. Cool?"
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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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"If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum."
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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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"Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light."
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"In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better."
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"I do not want to sound cynical or condescending, but your lips are moving, your mind unbending."
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"Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment."
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"It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought."
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"I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things."
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"Words are dead, until action brings them life."
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"You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?"
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"Words have power, and when you speak you give them life. Speak into the atmosphere. Speak into existence what you believe, desire, dream, and hope."
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"I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me."
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"Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life."
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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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"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
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"More of your conversation would infect my brain."
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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 cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse."
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"I'm dense when it comes to discouragement."
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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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"But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools."
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"The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it."
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"Don't just be selling, be connecting."
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"You don t need a stage to prove that you re a bad speaker."
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"Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin."
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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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"I wasn't fooled. He was avoiding looking at me. "There's nothing to talk about.""I knew you'd say that. Actually, it was a toss-up between that and 'I don't know what you're talking about.'"Dimitri sighed."
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