Assuming Quote by Michael Yates

We have too often been expected to speak all things to all people and speak everyone else's position but our own.

— Audre Lorde

Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling,…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But…

— Idries Shah

The actual communicative value of what we say is usually quite small. I've lived for times in small, isolated fishing villages, where everyone knows…

— Hal Whitehead

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

— Francis Bacon

We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand you and…

— Muhammad

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

— Edward Sapir

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a…

— Tony Robbins

We are all, after all, just human beings, and most of us have a lot in common.

— Michael Yates