I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our… — Arun Manilal Gandhi Copy Share Image
We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“difficult conversations are almost never about getting the facts right. They are about conflicting perceptions, interpretations, and values.” — Douglas Stone Copy Share Image
When someone praises me for some speech uploaded on YouTube, I politely tell them I've been acting for many years. — Radha Ravi Copy Share Image
It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
As a woman, it's frustrating to understand and accept the fact that there are so many messed up young boys who threaten… — Shibani Dandekar Copy Share Image
The attitude of the Pakistani people is very good. Whenever I release any statement or deliver any kind of speech, they respond… — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
“Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledge for mankind in polished speeches that are no more than vaporous winds rustling the… — Goethe Copy Share Image
Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole… — Penelope Mitchell Copy Share Image
The consumer has become increasingly sophisticated in the way they obtain and digest information - of the simple reason that they've become… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
“To reach him you have to back up and back up, and the further back you go, the further back you see… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
What I always think about when I think about 'Girls' is Lena being in a scene where she's very vulnerable, possibly directing,… — Jennifer Konner Copy Share Image
There's nothing more fun than feeling frequencies and learning about equipment - everybody should do that. But if you're going to put… — Tamaryn Copy Share Image
When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
By [the] operations [of public improvement] new channels of communication will be opened between the States; the lines of separation will disappear,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“Just as there are accents in speech, there are regional accents in sign. People from the South sign slower than people in… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
To love me, is to know me. To know me, is to learn me. To learn me, is to listen to me.… — Avieh Concepcion Copy Share Image
All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Sitting around our kitchen table from a very early age on, we talked politics, and we talked policy. Never once can I… — Cheri Bustos Copy Share Image
When we're each aware of our own Magnificence, we don't feel the need to control others, and we won't allow ourselves to… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
Next time a blocked number calls you answer like this: 'Local sperm bank. You jack it, we pack it. How may I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For Good Or Ill, Your ConversaTion Is Your AdvertIsement,,, Every TIme You Open Your Mouth You Let The People Look Into Your… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“True life and true change in our hearers does not come from our ingenuity, but from the Word of the Spirit (John… — David R. Helm Copy Share Image
And those moments that I find mind busting. Meaning like there's a word that I find in a weird place. I love… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
“And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
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I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
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While the Internet has allowed for some extraordinary progress in creating conversations about diversity, it also allows uninformed comments that one has… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
It's one thing to communicate to people because you believe you have something of value to say. It's another to communicate with… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
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