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Communication Quotes
"Words never change. What changes is how one interprets them."
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"Talk to strangers politely... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend."
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"Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
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"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions."
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"What does syadvad (speech that does not hurt the ego of any living being) speech say? Speak in such a way that 5 people benefit from it and that it does not interfere [conflict] with anyone."
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"Communication is not a two way street. It is a bridge. Either you have one or you build one. It's about connecting, not correcting."
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"We all have a voice of sorts and when put with others we make a good sound."
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"I understand a fury in your wordsBut not your words."
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"If you have a complaint about someone, then you become the accuser and the other becomes the accused. Never complain about anyone. He who brings a complaint is at fault, you should understand that first, then comes next, the talk about the accused."
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"Words are the only things that last for ever."
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"For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded."
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"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
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"One never said the things one wanted - one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something."
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"The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him."
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"No pleasure has any savor for me without communication."
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"Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open."
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"The idea economy is a conversation. Try to channel or control that conversation and you will stop the chatter."
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"She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech."
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"If people don t trust you, maybe you ve told them the wrong story."
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"Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?"
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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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"Your words are very powerful and what you say matters, keep them positive and powerful."
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"Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them."
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"When a person pauses in mid-sentence to choose a word, that's the best time to jump in and change the subject! It's like an interception in football! You grab the others guy's idea and run the opposite way with it! The more sentences you complete, the higher your score! The idea is to block the other guy's thoughts and express your own! That's how you win!Conversations aren't contests!Ok, a point for you, but I'm still ahead."
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"If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error."
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"If you do not tell me, I don't wish to know."
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"Where personal experience is concerned, we all speak a different language."
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"UN-Impressives of the Poor Listener Thinking about what you should have done, could have done, or need to do. Allowing your emotional reactions to take over. Interrupting the person talking. Replying before you hear all the facts. Jumping to conclusions and making assumptions. Being preoccupied with what you're going to say next. Getting defensive or being over-eager. One-upmanship-feeling the urge to compete and add something bigger, better, or more significant than what the speaker has to share. Imposing an unsolicited opinion. Ignoring and changing the subject altogether."
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"Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener."
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"Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference."
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"The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read."
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"YOU ARE WHAT YOU TWEET!"
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"Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either."
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"If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people."
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"Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you."
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"Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world."
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"Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing."
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"We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not matter what language you choose, the important thing is the words you use to express yourself."
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"When enlightened souls come in contact with ignorant people like you, they have to speak in YOUR language, because you are not yet qualified to speak to them, you have not yet mastered the ART to commune with them. Ordinarily communication happens between two minds, communion between two beings."
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"One's email address serves as an identity online and speaks volumes about a person; it may be telling potential clients, partners or employers a whole lot about you: to be hired or fired. Unfortunately most send negative signals, indicating that: you are not a serious person - you are immature - Unprofessional, - Uncouth. etc. Take a look at your email address again today, get professional, be ethical, respectful, be admirable."
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"To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness."
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"Words can be a fortress or a drawbridge to disaster."
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"The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless ... beyond speech ... beyond concept."
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"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."
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"Be careful how you use your words, how you build them and how people will understand them!?"
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"Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying."
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"To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not."
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