"Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths."
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"Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication."
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"I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be."
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"The greatest communication skill is paying value to others."
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"Are you in relationships with people who don't have your well-being at heart? Make a list of these, and consider what you can do to protect yourself from their toxic influence. Sometimes, setting better boundaries and practicing the tools of conscious communication can be transformative. In some cases, ending a relationship may be necessary."
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"[The Internet] ... is an amazing communications tool that's bringing the whole world together. I mean, you sit down to sign on to America Online in your hometown, and it's just staggering to think that at the same moment, halfway around the world, in China, someone you've never met is sitting at their computer, hearing the exact same busy signal that you're hearing."
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"Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display."
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"Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across."
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"The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution."
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"The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it."
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"I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together: the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into."
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"Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others."
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"[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul."
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"Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them."
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"I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say."
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"Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions. Or, as Marianne Moore put it, "The world's an orphan's home." And this feels more true than almost anything else I know. But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, read one line, and said, "Yes!" And I want to give people that feeling, too, of connection, communication."
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"All communication must lead to change"
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"The word of man is the most durable of all material."
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"Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book."
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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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