"Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening."
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"Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas."
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"You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening is described as compassionate listening. You listen only for the purpose of relieving suffering in the other person."
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"You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself."
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"Be sincere; be brief; be seated."
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"The thing of being able to share somebody's reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know. Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody's reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically. The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go? If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which... you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon."
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"No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others."
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"Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation."
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"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."
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"We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness."
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"Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being."
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"Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give."
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"Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are."
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"The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication."
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"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
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"The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away."
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"If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication."
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"Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action"
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"For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say."
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"Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud."
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