"In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best."
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"The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'"
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"Don't do anything that isn't play"
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"Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way..... true communication can happen only in that open space."
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"The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications."
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"The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use."
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"When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first."
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"When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily."
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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."
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"...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions."
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"...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror."
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"I have always felt the word 'advertising' is either a diminutive or derogatory term that kind of goes with stuff people don't like, and I always felt frustrated because I felt like I was a communication artist or a media artist. The best advertising is one of the art forms of our culture."
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"It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I'm much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value."
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"We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."
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"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."
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"If you have nothing to say, say nothing."
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"Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money."
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"Argument is the worst sort of conversation."
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"Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid."
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"I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and feelings to others, then it is because of the universality of the human experience that is speaking through the work of art."
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