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Of what does not concern you say nothing good or bad.
-Italian Proverb
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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.
-Proverb
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You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.
-Creighton Abrams
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For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
-George Ade
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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt.
-Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something through to somebody.
-Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
-Isaac Asimov
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The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.
-Russell Baker
No Cause for Pain, "Times (London)", November 28, 1991
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The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
-J. G. Ballard
Introduction to the French edition of Crash, 1974
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I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.
-John Banham
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
-Bernard Baruch
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Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.
-Alexander Graham Bell
The Mechanisms of Speech, 1916
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
-Robert Benchley
As quoted in: With Truth as Our Sword (2005) by C E Sylvester, p. 205
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You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen to you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, No Shit! or at least, No kidding!
-Gael Boardman
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
-Erma Bombeck
If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries..., 1971
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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
-Pearl Buck
The Writer's Book
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For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?
-Bruce Burton
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That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
-Albert Camus
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
-Dale Carnegie
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
-Dale Carnegie
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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
-Miguel de Cervantes
Preface to Don Quixote
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If you cry Forward you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?
-Anton Chekhov
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No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Books about Communication
