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Communication Quotes
"I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind."
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"The ruins stretch from the river to the base of that mountain over there, about half a kilometre.' 'How far is that in regular measurements?' Percy asked. Frank rolled his eyes. 'That is a regular measurement in Canada and the rest of the world. Only you Americans "' 'About five or six football fields,' Hazel interceded, feeding Arion a big chunk of gold. Percy spread his hands. 'That's all you needed to say."
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"Words are the voice of the heart."
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"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it."
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"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."
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"The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words HOME, CHRIST, ALE, MASTER, on his lips and on mine! I cannot speak or write these words without unrest of spirit. His language, so familiar and so foreign, will always be for me an acquired speech. I have not made or accepted its words. My voice holds them at bay. My soul frets in the shadow of his language."
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"The words come at my call but who calls whom?"
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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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"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation."
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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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"He seemed not to know the uses of silence."
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"Language is the source of misunderstandings."
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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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"It's not how well you communicate, but how intensely you have blended emotions with words that provides hints and triggers audiences mind to decipher and respond without your influence is what matters!"
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"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
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"How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive."
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"Criticism addressed to a person can only be of benefit if it was said in the right way and at the right time."
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"Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!"
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"He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought."
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"In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage."
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"Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words."
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"Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise."
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"Say something worthwhile and people will listen."
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"If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?"
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"Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them."
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"Never speak unless you can improve upon the stupidness of people's silence."
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"Texting is more direct. You don't have to use conversation filler."
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"I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental."
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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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"You can think all you can but don't publicize all your thoughts."
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"To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness."
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"In the past, I have all too often listened without hearing, asking questions when I had no intention of hearing the answer or understand my customer's requirements."
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"But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me."
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"The worst thing about being concise with people is the game of puzzle you've made them play."
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"Words are the only things that last for ever."
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"I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial words-and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant "I acknowledge that I've heard what you said; please continue."
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"Your words are powerful containers, carrying blessings or curses depending on what is inside of you. If you harbour bitterness in you, you will speak spitefully and create hurt and hatred in those you speak with. If there is love inside of you, you will release pleasant and caring words that create appreciation, gratitude and warmth in those around you."
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"Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities."
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"Words are the source of misunderstandings."
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"The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside."
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"I've been waiting half an hour for you to wake up. His voice was uneven and raspy. "Is that right? she murmured."
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"Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart."
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"Once you can communicate with yourself, you'll be able to communicate outwardly with more clarity. The way in is the way out."
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"A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details..."
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"A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality that thought can never reach."
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"You can use words if you wish, but I'm warning you - I've learned how to read your heart ..."
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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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"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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