Communication Quotes - Page 10

• Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

  Jeff Daly

  Two, Language, Dialogue

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• After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

  Russell Hoban

  Inspirational, People, Novelists

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz”, p.146, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

  Marcel Marceau

  Men, Thinking, Talking

  US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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• A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.

  Will Rogers

  Smart, Book, Reading

  "The Will Rogers Book".

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• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Albert Schweitzer, William Larimer Mellon (1996). “Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr”, p.18, Syracuse University Press

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  Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

  Salman Rushdie

  Courage, Novelists, Language

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

  Gorgias

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Words Of Wisdom

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• A good DJ is always looking at the crowd, seeing what they’re like, seeing whether it’s working; communicating with them. Smiling at them. And a bad DJ is always looking down at what they’re doing all the time and just doing their thing that they practiced in their bedroom

  Fatboy Slim

  Smile, Crowds, Bedroom

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• Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does not communicate by word alone.

  Ray Birdwhistell

  Being Alone, Men, Doe

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• We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

  Peter Block

  Relationship, Work, Learning

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• Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

  Satyajit Ray

  Mind, Cinema, Intimacy

  Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”

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• Learning first occurs as a part of emotional interactions; it involves the split-second initiatives that children take as they try to engage other people,interact with them communicate and reason with them.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Learning, Emotional

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• The important word there is inspire. The key difference between managers and leaders is that managers tell people what to do, while leaders inspire them to do it. Inspiration comes from three things: clarity of one's vision, courage of their conviction and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things.

  Jeff Weiner

  Leadership, Courage, Business

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• If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.

  Seymour Chwast

  Art, Creativity, Ideas

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• I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Love Is, Scary, Feelings

  Interview With Sarah Paulson, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.

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• My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Quiet People, Imagination, Silence

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• I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

  Damien Hirst

  Want, Sometimes, Communicate

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• Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Funny, Life

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• To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

  Yves Klein

  Vocabulary, Soul, Explaining

  Sidra Stich, Yves Klein, Hayward Gallery, Museum Ludwig, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) (1994). “Yves Klein”

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• Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

  Virginia Satir

  Motivational, Family, Appreciation

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• The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

  Bernard Baruch

  Ideas, Important, Ability

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• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence

  Deborah Tannen

  Independence, Cogs, Needs

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Skills, People, Great Day

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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.

  Frank Luntz

  Thinking, Tanks, Example

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• Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

  James Merrill

  Parent, Strange, Problem

  James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf

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