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Communication Quotes
"A well paid word deceives them. And what kind of a word is a word that has a price, high or low, which is adjusted to the price of fame, and how, long ago, when it was little appreciated, was it more valuable than it is today with a big price?"
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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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"The trusted quality and power of the believed sponsor of your words will have a big impact on the power released in and through your words. You should have sufficient sponsorship to counter the kind of words you do not want to influence your life, thoughts and mission. Contrary words and convincing voices will encounter you on the route to your destiny and they need to be countered with strong conviction and authority."
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"It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them."
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"It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge."
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"As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently."
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"Communication is everyone's panacea for everything."
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"It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other."
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"The words you speak reveal the heart you have."
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"Every word spoken is a reflection of your inner beliefs!"
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"To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality."
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"He was probably being so quiet because he was trying not to say it out loud."
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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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"The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree."
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"Closed mouths, only lead to closed gates. Share your salvation!"
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"Incidentally, it's easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people."
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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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"Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall."
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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 single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
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"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."
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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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"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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"Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication."
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"We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices."
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"Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view."
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"Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye."
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"Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?"
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"If our message reaches the kitchen tables, we are in good shape."
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"What you post online speaks VOLUME about who you really are. POST with intention. REPOST with caution."
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"Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence."
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"I'd rather someone be honest and tell me something that I didn't want to hear, rather than dishonest and tell me something I want to hear."
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"The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She'd been through too much, between my siters-I could not add to the weight. So instead, I did my best to balance it out, bit by bit, word by word, story by story, even if none of them were true."
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"You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception."
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"Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word."
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"Misunderstandings are a normal part of life, and the outcomes of these depend upon how we choose to react to them."
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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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"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 had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."
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"Communication is a possibility. Connecting is an ability. Caring is a decision."
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"The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much."
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"Talking is good. It's good to disturb the silence."
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"Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody."
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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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"There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up."
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"Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not."
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"A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production."
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"So to that extent that was a very sharp reminder a few months out from the election that we weren't performing in the eyes of the public to the level that they wanted if they were going to re-elect us. So we went out and were much more upfront on issues."
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"When you don't ask for advice, but get it anyway, it has more to do with the needs and wants of the giver than you the receiver."
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