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Communication Quotes
"It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change."
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"I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things."
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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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"Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say."
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"The way you argued with me, you would have thought that we were debating the existence of God or whether or not we should move in together. These kinds of fights can never be won " even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that."
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"Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company."
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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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"Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump."
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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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"What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same."
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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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"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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"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
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"Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
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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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"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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"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing."
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"Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life."
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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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"There is a way that the men speak to women that reminds me too much of Pa. They listen just long enough to issue instructions. They don't even look at women when women are speaking. They look at the ground and bend their heads toward the ground."
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"Communication is a possibility. Connecting is an ability. Caring is a decision."
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"When I did it with Johnny, it was almost a telepathic kind of communication."
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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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"Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition."
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"You don t need a stage to prove that you re a bad speaker."
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"Communication is not a one-way street."
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"Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin."
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"Words are dead, until action brings them life."
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"Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling)."
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"The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too."
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"Words can be arrows that inflict wounds. They can also be bandages that heal."
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"A person who has clean ears can act and communicate with people more maturely than others who use their big mouth all the time because he or she can thouroughly understand other people's perspectives unlike people with big mouths."
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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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"Hey, slow down... please speak clearly and understandable on the topic what happen!"
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"Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication."
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"One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication."
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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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"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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"Sticks and stones may break my bones but your words were always the hardest."
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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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"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing."
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"Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in."
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"Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say."
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"Sometimes it is not easy to find any words that properly convey a thought. When we hear or read, we usually remember the gist, not the exact words, so there has to be such a thing as a gist that is not the same as a bunch of words."
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