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Communication Quotes
"They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them."
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"You listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ..."
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"Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies."
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"Social Media begins with a story - your story."
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"It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence."
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"I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow."
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"Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words."
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"As human being, we live in a perpetual conversation between conversation and violence; what apart from fundamental willingness to be reasonable, can guarantee that we will keep talking to one another?"
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"What you say about your situation matters a lot in life than what you do to it. It helps when you know what to say. When things are not going the way they are supposed to go, God does not keep quiet, He always say something. Do the same, change your situation with the words of your mouth."
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"To speak much is one thing, to speak to the point another!"
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"Say something worthwhile and people will listen."
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"But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand."
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"There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk."
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"There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else."
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"But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything."
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"HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge..."
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"Without emotion, all thoughts or words are powerless."
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"Develop a vocabulary of uplifting and empowering words for times of uncertainty and upheaval."
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"Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers."
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"Listening is more important than solutioning."
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"In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry."
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"If your words touch the hearts, that's good; if your words touch the minds, that's better and if your words touch both the hearts and the minds, that is the best!"
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"One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone."
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"It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no."
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"You don't have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire."
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"No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue."
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"When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak, be our silent statement."
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"When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."
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"You don't have to say anything if you don't want to."Anna lies down, her head pillowed against my shoulder. Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas-a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak."
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"He learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke - the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was live. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes meet . . ."
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"I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what."
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"Words can express true feelings, true emotions and wisdom. It is up to you to use them wisely... Choose your words carefully and express the peacefully!"
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"Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest."
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"He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing."
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"The pause - that impressive silence that eloquent silence that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words howsoever felicitous could accomplish it."
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"If you can't share your story, you can't sell your product."
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"The problem is not the misunderstanding we have, but the understanding we have missed. We must come to come to a certain understanding; to understand understanding, we need to understand understanding and we must understand with understanding!"
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"My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning."
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"Texting is not talking and a phone is not a friend."
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"Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say."
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"A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader - as an irritating voice is to a listener."
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"We live in a day that nobody's lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I'll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It's just an amazing day."
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"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order."
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"His voice is deep and gravelly. I once heard one of the girls say that he had the voice of a sex god, but because I've never really heard what a sex god sounds like, I can't verify that."
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"If you need only 10 minutes to speak about a topic that requires 60 minutes, then you are a good speaker. If you need 60 minutes to speak about a topic which requires only 10 minutes, then you are a Romanian preacher."
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"Everyone wants to talk-talk-talk. Can't we eat-eat-eat, and then talk?"
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"Just because you talk about it or advocate for one position doesn't mean you care more. Just because someone doesn't talk about it and advocates a different position doesn't mean they care less."
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"People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper."
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"Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our truest emotions using simple words!"
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