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• Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Greatness

  "Technical Support Essentials: Advice to Succeed in Technical Support". Book by Andrew Sanchez, p. 79, December 30, 2009.

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• Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

  Rowan Williams

  Rooms, Grows, Humans

  "This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

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• The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.

  Albert Einstein

  Play, Roles, Elements

  Albert Einstein (1981). “After Einstein: Proceedings of the Einstein Centennial Celebration, Memphis State University, March 14-16, 1979”

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• A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

  Truman Capote

  Intelligent, Talking, Two

  "Leadership Divided: What Emerging Leaders Need and What You Might Be Missing". Book by Ron A. Carucci, September 30, 2006.

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• From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their lives and times.

  Raphael Soyer

  Art, People, Communicate

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• If you have a privately owned system, there's going to be monies leaving the community that will go towards shareholder dividends and high salaries. If you have a community owned, municipally owned facility, those extra resources are being reinvested in the community and they can be going to weatherization and other projects that are vested in the community.

  Bill Simmons

  Community, Leaving, Salary

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• One of the lessons of 9/11 and (Hurricane) Katrina was 'communication, communication, communication, .. We don't want to have to say 'should have, could have, would have.'.

  Mufi Hannemann

  Should Have, Lessons, Want

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• Tell the viewer something that they need to know.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Needs, Viewers, Knows

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• If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.

  Selima Hill

  Writing, People, Needs

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• There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no information, and his work cannot be used. It is the end product which counts.

  Georg Baselitz

  Artist, Information, Used

  Georg Baselitz, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum (1983). “Baselitz, paintings 1960-83”

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• Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge. Knowledge is born of the desire to know, Art derives from the necessity to communicate and to announce.

  Naum Gabo

  Art, Meditation, Desire

  Naum Gabo (2000). “Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews”

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• Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

  Gary Holland

  Art, Creating, Opinion

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• All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness.

  Jack Beal

  Art, Views, Advertising

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• I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.

  Norval Morrisseau

  Laughter, Compassion, Years

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• When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

  Bruno Munari

  Artist, Secret, Moments

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• I continuously strive to touch lives.

  Michael Bell

  Strive

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• To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.

  Gautama Buddha

  Blessing, Discipline, Speech

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• There are some communities that feel you shouldn't give them the publicity, because it's just going to make people curious. There are communities who feel we need to fight them tooth and nail. What we have seen, though, is that ignoring them does not make them go away. If we sit back and let them have free reign, we lose members of our community.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fighting, People, Giving

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• Wise men speak because they have something to say

  Plato

  Wise, Men, Speak Less

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• Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

  Tom Peters

  Panacea, Good Communication

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• Music is the greatest communication in the world.

  Lou Rawls

  Music, World, Jazz

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• To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

  Will Durant

  Art, Half, Diplomats

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1961). “The Story of Civilization: The Age of Reason begins, 1558-1648”

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• I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.

  Steven Wright

  Home, Car, Messages

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• Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

  John Drinkwater

  Way, Certain, Poetry Is

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Misunderstood, Society, Dialogue

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