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"It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive."
"People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication."
"In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication."
"[Internet] technology, like anything else that mankind creates is a tool and that tool can be used for good or for evil, like a light saber. Technology is supposed to bring people together, streamline things and make life easier and in a lot of ways it does that. However, technology can also disconnect you from other people and break down the social network, the real social network of family and friends and interpersonal communication, and isolate people, make them feel alone, make them feel small. So it's a tool that needs to be used correctly."
"That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments..."
"Have you ever stopped to consider the power of words? Through mere words, wars have started and ended. Tender feelings have been hurt and soothed. Courage has been instilled and fear has been implanted. Lives have been destroyed and others changed for the better. Think back on your own life when words have hurt you deeply or have comforted and given you strength and hope to do better."
"Of those who say nothing, few are silent."
"I think the most important key to quality communication and interaction is developing an interest in the person you`re talking with. Most women know the secret to a quality conversation is to ask quality questions and have a sincere interest in hearing the answers. In fact, the best communicators very often say the least. It`s not the extrovert who dominates the conversation that a client feels most connected with, but rather the individual who shows a real and sincere interest in knowing about the life of the person they`re talking with."
"I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues."
"Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others."
"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
"Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day."
"Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills."
"We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march."
"Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics."
"Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices."
"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up."
"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."
"The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written."
"The Internet is just one big gossip chamber - that's why it's so fascinating and entertaining. It's a fabulous platform for superficial communication."
