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Communication Quotes
"Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free."
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"She had always thought that if only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of language, then understanding would be perfect and there'd be no more needless conflicts. Instead she had discovered that rather than magnifying differences between people, language might just as easily soften them, minimize them, smooth things over so that people could get along even though they really didn't understand each other. The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think they were more alike than they really were. Maybe language was better."
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"Real silence is silence without words, silence that speaks words in silence and silence that talks better than words."
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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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"Words are life. They can tear down or build up, so use them wisely."
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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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"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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"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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"Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality."
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"The unsaid rules every conversation."
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"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation."
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"Please, Katsa," he finally said. "At least talk to me".She swung around to face him. "What it there to talk about? You know how I feel, and what I think about it.""And what I feel? Doesn't it matter?"
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"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence."
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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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"When words remain unspoken and emotions are left unexpressed, just a glint in the eyes from otherness can inflame the mind and rouse a shower of empathy. ['Only needed a light ']"
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"Sometimes "No" is the kindest word."
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"When you think in silence you cannot speak your mind."
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"Words are powerful, so use every word wisely to create a better world."
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"Quite often it's not about what is said, but what isn't. And even when it's spoken, read between the lines. Listening with the heart is just as important as hearing with the mind."
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"If you respect & care about someone, give him/her direct feedback in his/her face. Please don't be coward and use proxies! Be a man/woman!!!"
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"When you 'lie' to me, you don't 'lie down' or lay.Even after the game you still want to play."
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"Humor is hard to catch in a second language. Especially when you're as serious a young man as Giovanni. He said to me the other night, 'When you are ironic, I am always behind you. I am slower. It is like you are the lightning and I am the thunder."
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"What what," Trapis said as he hurried over to tend to her, his bare feet slapping on the floor. "What what. Hush hush."
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"Lend me your ears and you can borrow my mind."
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"The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her."
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"Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in."
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"Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be intolerably screaming, if it means absence of communication, deficiency in friendship and emotional deficit. ['A gap of silence']"
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"More than anything else, your people want you to listen to them."
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"Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."
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"Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back."
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"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?"
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"She was as bored as her brother would have been, and had not his gift of listening beneath words."
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"Choose your audience wisely, for its not your performance that varies but their response is what matters!"
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"Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way you say it. That makes all the difference."
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"One of the greatest tools you cannot do without is the media. These various means for mass communication and those involved in them must be your partners and not your enemies, you must not be afraid of them but befriend and love them. If you are going to be significant and relevant then you are going to need someone to help broadcast your voice and channel your substance to the world."
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"Talking doesn't get your point across but listening does."
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"From what you didn't say, lies that you did say."
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"The two words expressed volumes."
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"Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change the true intended meaning of the entire sentence. For instance, if the word love is intentionally or accidentally replaced with hate in a sentence, its effect could trigger a war or false dogma."
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"Be the voice, that can be heard without a microphone."
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"The author & the reader "know" each other: they meet on the bridge of words."
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"Ask any person trained in sign language and they will confirm the fact that you can talk with your hands. Your hand gestures communicate for you and are an integral part of your language. While some people may come by hand gestures naturally, you can learn to be even more expressive to get your points across-and to be memorable."
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"Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future."
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"When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in."
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"I thought no one was talking to me and the others thought I wasn't talking to them."
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