“At the outset, you’re spending your time discovering what’s important to people and being empathetic to their problems. You’re searching through listening.… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
I think any great culture is born out of transparent, authentic communication. You almost can't overcommunicate. You can try, and you might… — Brad Garlinghouse Copy Share Image
She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Communications must destroy localness, by a slow, inevitable process [...] Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“You can almost always find something in common with another person, and from there, it's much easier to address issues where you… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“To live in communion, in genuine dialogue with others is absolutely necessary if man is to remain human. But to live in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Americans are funny," Terence O'Donnell pointed out in a conversation we had about our national need to own as much as possible,… — Lionel Fisher Copy Share Image
For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Storytellers like King make a conscious effort to incorporate metaphor into their speeches and presentations—the “promissory note” being just one of many… — Carmine Gallo Copy Share Image
“Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation. They picked up pearls of wisdom… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that… — David Abram Copy Share Image
We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
By the same token, the new and stringent Ultramontanism on the Catholic Left - in which even the mildest questions about how… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“Having moved from Florida to Wisconsin, it has been an interesting exercise for me to attend networking events where I did not… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can… — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
No one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short.… — Edgar Dale Copy Share Image
Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as… — John Green Copy Share Image
To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming,… — Cliff Shaw Copy Share Image
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
As children's inquiries are not to be slighted, so also great care is to be taken, that they never receive deceitful and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge, and that is vitally important for us We do not need… — Louis Braille Copy Share Image
In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
When we share intimacies with one person, and keep that secret from another, we create distance. Its inevitable. This kind of emotional… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
In terms of my conversations with [Vladimir] Putin, these are conversations that took place before the election. As I indicated, there has… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I remembered my father's speech about what Jack was capable of and wasn't; he'd said, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“to bar communication between intellectuals, who are always our best hope of peace, is particularly self-defeating and inane. It declares, inter alia,… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I… — I. King Jordan Copy Share Image
The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Truth affirms freedom of speech. Putin is no friend of reli - freedom of speech. Putin is an enemy of freedom of… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Delicious Dialogue “We’ve all known the proverbial conversation hog who dominates a discussion and pays little notice to another person’s input. They’re… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“By exerting ourselves through unnecessary or irrelevant speech or action, we increase the risk of conflict by a million percent. By meeting… — Monaristw Copy Share Image
The biggest possible thing that we're trying to do is change the conversation about what it means to be a working artist… — Nikka Graff Lanzarone Copy Share Image
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![“By the same token, the new and stringent Ultramontanism on the Catholic Left - in which even the mildest questions about how things are working in this pontificate are denounced as treasonous disloyalty - is an affront to the open conversation for which the pope [FRANCIS] has called.” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e10/george-weigel-9372_affront_by-the-same-token-the-new-and-stringent_1885252.jpg)
![“In terms of my conversations with [Vladimir] Putin, these are conversations that took place before the election. As I indicated, there has been very clear proof that they have engaged in cyber attacks. This isn't new. It's not unique to Russia. There are a number of states where we've seen…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/03f/barack-obama-17_behavior_in-terms-of-my-conversations-with-vladim_492169.jpg)
![“There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New Orleans, or something like Soundtrack for a Revolution, about the power of the music of the civil rights movement [which he executive produced in 2009]. Or Bamako…” quote by Danny Glover](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/755/danny-glover-7902_cinema_there-are-things-that-make-me-excited-ab_273405.jpg)
