Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech. — Nathaniel Altman Copy Share Image
...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Great communication, Character, Competitive drive, Consistency, Compassion, Confidence -- skills successful leaders share. — Avery Johnson Copy Share Image
During a campaign speech in Ohio, President Obama said, 'I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth'. So to be… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on… — Gerald Celente Copy Share Image
“Communication is health; communication is happiness. Communication, he muttered. 'What are you saying, Septimus?' Rezia asked, wild with terror, for he was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I love body language, because I can speak it without talking, without listening, and while my back is turned.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I don't think it's going to come as a shock to anyone, but Garrett and I have decided to end our engagement.… — Becca Kufrin Copy Share Image
Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
I know everybody loves the listening-to-rap story but the No. 1 contributor to me speaking English the way I do is my… — Jon Rahm Copy Share Image
“But I distinctly remember having conversations before the election with people who were telling me, “No, this will never happen,” and I… — The Women's March Organizers Copy Share Image
I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality. My uncle was a Swedish… — Dean Haglund Copy Share Image
I understand what's going on, and when I see the fervor, when I see 25,000 people that have seats and not one… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“We must insist that free oratory is only the beginning of free speech; it is not the end, but a means to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“We talk far too much. We should talk less and draw more. I personally should like to renounce speech altogether and, like… — Goethe Johann-Wolfgang Copy Share Image
“Balaam in his wrath hardly seems to notice the miraculous gift of speech but responds as though he were accustomed to having… — Robert Alter Copy Share Image
Before you speak listen, before you write think, Before you quit try, Before you take a SHIT, look at the toilet paper. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Listening actively confirms for people that you are positively receiving and thoroughly understanding the message they are conveying.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
“I’d never been fond of gratuitous cursing. I figured it was lazy, a communication habit of people who couldn’t be bothered finding… — Susan Lyons Copy Share Image
Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans. — Alistair Cockburn Copy Share Image
It's impossible to utilize your right to free speech in the way you truly deserve and not suffer repercussions on any level. — David Draiman Copy Share Image
What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be on the road for 210-220 days per year. That was one of my first things when I… — Alberto Del Rio Copy Share Image
There will be no more protests. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia.… — D. J. MacHale Copy Share Image
I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language. — James Blunt Copy Share Image
A 'live' show is either alive or not. Free speech is free or it is not. Viewers are free to use their… — Frank Pierson Copy Share Image
“I thought of Pericles' speech to the families of the Athenian war dead, in which he said, "What you leave behind is… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“What is it to be witty, then?” “To say clever things.” “And what is cleverness?” “I …” Why was he having this… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I'm kind of the crisis communications person at 'SNL.' If there are fires to put out, they try and find me. — Lindsay Shookus Copy Share Image
Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer. — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
“I have not the power adequately to describe them without committing a breach of the laws of decent speech.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Communication is key. If you talk, but cannot sit back and listen to the other person's rebuttal, nothing gets solved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The greatest risk in giving our government any power to control our speech is that it would then have a vehicle to… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
