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Communication Quotes
"I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication."
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"Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen."
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"I love words. I thank you for hearing my words. I want to tell you something about words that I think is important. Words are my work, they're my play. They're my passion. Words are all we have really. We have thoughts, but thoughts are fluid. And, then we assign a word to a thought and we're stuck with that word for that thought. So be careful with words. The same words that hurt can heal."
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"Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning."
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"Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar."
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"No", she said, "I know that you don't like me.""You don't know anything."
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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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"So here is one tip, be careful how you say the words... sometimes people get it wrong once wrong it goes like rummor."
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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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"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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"The reason creatures wanted to use language instead of mental telepathy was that they found out they could get so much more done with language. Language made them so much more active. Mental telepathy, with everybody constantly telling everybody everything, produced a sort of generalized indifference to all information. But language, with its slow, narrow meanings, made it possible to think about one thing at a time -- to start thinking in terms of projects."
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"Sticks and stones may break my bones but your words were always the hardest."
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"Thanks to words we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words we have often sunk to the level of the demons."
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"Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say."
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"Hey, slow down... please speak clearly and understandable on the topic what happen!"
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"A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication."
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"Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words."
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"Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning."
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"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
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"First! Does this need to be said? Second! Does this need to be said by me? And third! Does this need to be said by me right now?"
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"Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech."
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"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."
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"There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words."
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"There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows."
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"And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know."
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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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"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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"We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words."
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"Effective, true deep listening and honest dialogue is a gift a soul can choose to give. How easy or difficult that can be depends on the values you hold in your life."
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"Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better."
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"Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong."
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"The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard."
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"Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions."
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"A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton..."
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"I can't know your feelings", he said ,"if you don't know them yourself."
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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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"Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not, the whole point of conversations was flow."
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"Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind."
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"Never speak unless you can improve upon the stupidness of people's silence."
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"If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them."
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"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid."
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"Cheapen words and they'll cheapen you."
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"William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn't understand, nor did the abbot understand it, and perhaps it was best for us both, because the word William uttered had an obscene hissing sound."
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"Language is the source of misunderstandings."
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"Speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks."
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"Always remember that every word you say contains power and you must ask yourself a few questions about your words; Are these words true and kind? Are these words relevant and necessary? Are these words effective for intentions? Reflect on what your words carry, they are a life-changing container!"
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"Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide."
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