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Communication Quotes
"Communication is not a one-way street."
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"A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words."
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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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"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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"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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"With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication."
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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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"By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication."
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"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
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"Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded."
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"Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters."
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"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."
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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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"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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"Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one."
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"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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"A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string."
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"So far, I had a solid collection of my honest opinions."
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"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
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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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"They Learn to speak... and when they were at level "AVERAGE", they started making the rules and starting to shout."
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"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings."
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"Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail."
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"I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."
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"It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with."
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"There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk."
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"Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them."
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"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing."
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"Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain."
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"But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?"
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"They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties."
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"You have a very high probability of your quote and your name being distributed, posted, and shared around the world!"
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"All the things I've ever wanted to say suddenly I've been bold enough to say them on Social Media."
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"Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say."
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"The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication."
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"I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know."
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"I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts."
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"Consistency and accuracy instills believability."
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"In a myriad of ways you tell one truth."
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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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"People don't only speak with their mouths. They speak with their whole being. Sometimes they mean what they don't say and say what they don't mean; so listen with your whole being also. Let your whole being connect to theirs. Do not only listen to their voice, but also to their body language and their emotions. Listen with your ears and your heart."
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"If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic."
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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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