“Back in New York I took full advantage of my status as a native speaker. I ran my mouth to shop clerks… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
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“The sensing types are not in such close communication with their unconscious. They do not trust an answer that suddenly appears. They… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as 'Communists' or… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
“The present threat is not based on conflicting ideas about America's basic principles. It is based on several serious problems that stem… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Happiness, for me, has to be real - life that is made of real conversations, of spending quality time with close friends,… — Bhumika Chawla Copy Share Image
I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched… — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
“Developers are the most-important, most-valuable constituency in business today, regardless of industry. Technologists newly empowered with tools, hyper-connected via specialized collaboration and… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was just always looking for - you're always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl.… — Blake Griffin Copy Share Image
“Commonalities, which need to be celebrated, exist among creative people – as they do in the sciences, the sports or in many… — Ellen Palestrant Copy Share Image
We can not communicate with the Lord if we do not communicate with each other. If we want to present ourselves to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Man's genius has with God's help produced marvelous technical inventions from creation, especially in our times. The Church, our mother, is particularly… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
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I share a warning. Satan is extremely good at blocking spiritual communication by inducing individuals, through temptation, to violate the laws upon… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I cannot please everybody, but it is important to have one eye. This builds a faithful following and, consequently, good clientele. That's… — Carla Sozzani Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant… — Ezra Levant Copy Share Image
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Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important,… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
“practicing the rhetorical punch, parry, and kick of dog whistle racial jujitsu. Here are the basic moves: (1) punch racism into the… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The first basic need of a male is sexual fulfillment; for a female, affection. The second most basic need of a male… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
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[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':]… — Bess Truman Copy Share Image
It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination…Of what use are speech sounds and… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
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“Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The insanity has to stop...It affects each and every one of us, in multiple and nefarious ways: our self-image, how we show… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
“A canon is a guarded catalogue of that speech, music and art which houses inside us, which is irrevocably familiar to our… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“I use no figure of speech when I say that we may now buy our books in bulk. I saw, only this… — Adeline Knapp Copy Share Image
On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor.… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Early on the morning of November 9, when it came time to decide on what I’d say in my concession speech, I… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
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![“George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said Our God is the God who named the stars. The problem is: two-thirds of all stars that have names, have Arabic names. I don't think he knew this. That would confound…” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/082/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_all-stars_george-bush-within-a-week-of-this-the-9_1566914.png)
![“[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.” quote by Bess Truman](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/4fe/bess-truman-27530_care_when-her-daughter-suggested-the-presiden_25215.png)
