In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Films really can change a conversation and change someone's thinking and perception, especially with people of color at the center. It rarely… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
“He had always imagined madness as a flailing hysteria, subdued only by restraint or drugs. Not this dulled indifference that slowed his… — Laura Elliot Copy Share Image
Open, frank communication is the lynchpin to teamwork. A fractured team is like a fractured bone; fixing it is always painful and… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity, Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
“– THE 6 WAYS TO COMMUNICATE YOUR FEELINGS – Relationship-Attractors: Men want to be understood, just as you do. If… — Alex Altman Copy Share Image
To live in a world of photographs is to live in a world of substitutes... or so it seems, whose actual referent… — Sarah Charlesworth Copy Share Image
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
“The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because people are thinking and communicating in terms of screens, and not in lettered… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A… — Andre Kostelanetz Copy Share Image
“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
The reason I don't want to say anything about it is it has a strange power to take over the conversation. Just… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Of the many lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic thus far, two of the most critical are the need for effective national… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
“We have talked about Suzy and about her last days, but it's as if our lives stopped then and there. If I… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
If you just heard 90 percent of dentists recommend something, it's too statistical. Nine out of 10 says: Well, it's just virtually… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“A wealth of research confirms the importance of face-to-face contact. One experiment performed by two researchers at the University of Michigan challenged… — Edward L. Glaeser Copy Share Image
“Our work, our relationships, and our lives succeed or fail one conversation at a time. While no single conversation is guaranteed to… — Susan Scott Copy Share Image
You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Of course, in principle, they're against it. We are the ones that keep asking them what they think about it. I think… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
The assault on our body image, the hypersexualization of girls and women and subsequent degradation of our sexuality as we walk through… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
“Nothing that a Christian and a Muslim can say to each other will render their beliefs mutually vulnerable to discourse, because the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“And if you think you have wronged me by giving me your friendship, and occasionally admitting me to the enjoyment of your… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
I assumed that the pencil market was collapsing, but then it turns out that from 2010 to 2011 in the United States,… — David Rees Copy Share Image
“Just so ya know, mate, superpowers come at a cost." "What superpowers are you-" "Oi, listen. D'ya know Pinocchio? The wooden lad.… — Yannis Karatsioris Copy Share Image
Empathy is why entertainment is always growing, and for millennials, everyone is judging them and trying to grab their attention by insulting… — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
“rests at Ephesus; and moreover John, who was both a witness and a teacher, who reclined upon the bosom of the Lord,… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
“It is their usual reaction; they employ not words and reasoned conversation or discourse to resolve problems, but the truncheon, the jackbooted… — Daniel S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have… — Edward Felten Copy Share Image
Being in conversation with everything popular culture, there's such a danger there. Sometimes you just don't realize how it comes across, but… — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image
There are 3 levels of compatibility in intimate relationships that connect the most subtle realm of spirit to the most outer, dense… — John Friend Copy Share Image
You try to shut the criticism out, but it's pretty hard to do. You see people on the street, friends, people that… — Don Shula Copy Share Image
“In all circumstances serenity of mind should be maintained, and conversation should be conducted as never to mar the harmony of the… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
“One of the basic principles of every single art form has to do not with what’s there—the music, the words, the movement,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I remember you explaining the bases to me in this dugout. The best baseball conversation we ever had.” I lean forward and… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
I am always impressed by the fact that even the tiniest amount of being listened to, the barest suggestion of the possibility… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
