"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse."
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"Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community."
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"But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication."
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"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."
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"I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap."
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"Communication is only possible between equals."
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"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
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"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!"
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"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while."
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"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."
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"Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home."
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"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
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"What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artist who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances."
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"Communication is the most important single activity of man."
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"Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence."
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"Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head."
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"The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the audience as well as the participant, and the purpose of it is to activate the parts of the mind that are not activated by everyday activity ... 'Magic' becomes the development of techniques that allow communication with hidden portions of the self, and with hidden portions of all other islands in this 'psychic sea.'"
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"Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions."
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"Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another."
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"Wise men speak because they have something to say"
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