If you have an enemy, you first have to listen - whether he really is an enemy or just speaks in a… — Hans-Peter Durr Copy Share Image
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all. — Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Copy Share Image
Too much of the national conversation about trade and the border comes from people who have not had the opportunity to step… — Kevin Faulconer Copy Share Image
“Samuel leapt at me, no doubt going for the kill. Well, okay, maybe that’s a bit obvious. After all, you typically don’t… — Rick Gualtieri Copy Share Image
“Delivering the speech was a surreal experience. The delegates sat silent, almost frozen in place. It was like speaking to a wax… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [...] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not… — Raph Koster Copy Share Image
I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before.… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
“All of the casual conversation openings I'd been practicing in my head, as I trudged through the basic tasks in the lab,… — Melanie Cusick-Jones Copy Share Image
For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Pay no heed to the darkness, the open mouth of greed, the hateful speech, the walls and the guns and the men… — Parnaz Foroutan Copy Share Image
Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern… — Joseph Stowell Copy Share Image
Why is it that I always seem to have the raunchiest conversations at the most family-friendly restaurants... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the… — Dr Annabelle RC Copy Share Image
If the employees fundamentally trust the C.E.O., then communications will be vastly more efficient than if they don't. Telling things as they… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyay. Kino sighed with satisfaction… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I really miss flip phones because at the end of a conversation you could always dramatically close them like bitch whatever. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a long conversation we're going to have about how to enforce immigration laws. But physically securing the border is essential. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I really do feel like the work and time we spend avoiding having difficult conversations is so much more wasteful and painful… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations.… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to… — Mike Rutherford Copy Share Image
I would say that to listen is to become aware. To become truly informed. You will discover whatever you do. — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I wish people would listen rather than rush around in their own world. There's a danger that we are becoming stuck in… — Les Dennis Copy Share Image
Please explain to me what being an icon is. How do you define it? I haven't been given a script. I don't… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The SSN Institute will be expanded in areas such as liberal arts, social sciences, natural sciences, communications. — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
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