Anne Morrow Lindbergh
', '“For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.”Ingrid Bengis
', '“Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.”William Penn
', '“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”Anonymous
', '“It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”Sir Winston Churchill
', '“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”Albert Einstein
', '“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”Linus Pauling', '“Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.”
John Ruskin
', '“Use soft words and hard arguments.”English Proverb
', '“Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.”Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
', '“The truth isn’t the truth until people believe you, and they can’t believe you if they don’t know what you’re saying, and they can’t know what you’re saying if they don’t listen to you, and they won’t listen to you if you’re not interesting, and you won’t be interesting unless you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.”William Bernbach
', '“There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication .... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.”John Dewey
', '“While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say.”Leo Gomes
', '“The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.”Robert Heinlein
', '“Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.”Ludwig von Mises
', '“We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure.”Eric Hoffer
', '“Everyone hears only what he understands.”Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
', '“We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.”Cullen Hightower
', '“It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator’s skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.”William Bernbach
', '“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared listener.”Robert Louis Stevenson
', '“Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption that the other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only one reality ....”Paul Watzlawick
', '“Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.”Wendell Johnson
', '“If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams— the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”Robert Southey
', '“Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.”Aprocrypha
', '“Grasp the subject, the words will follow.”Cato the Elder
', '“Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.”Josh Billings
', '“Words are but pictures of our thoughts.”John Dryden
', '“The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.”Alfred Whitney Griswold
', '“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”Henri Bergson
', '“We need a definite purpose, a specific reason for listening, other wise we don’t pay attention and don’t really hear or understand.”Robert Montgomery
', '“The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.”Daniel W. Davenport
', '“The reason you don’t understand me Edith is because I’m talkin’ to you in English and you’re listening in dingbat!”Archie Bunker, All In The Family
', '“Man’s inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively, skillfully, and with understanding to another person.”Carl Rogers
', '“It’s extremely difficult to introduce vital new knowledge when everybody assumes he already knows all that needs to be known.”Lee Thayer
', '“Human communicating is not a science. It is very much still— and perhaps always will be— essentially an art.”Lee Thayer
', '“Communication works for those who work at it.”John Powell S.J.
', '“To communicate is risky, to not communicate is riskier.”Anonymous
', '“The best way to persuade people is with your ears— by listening to them.”Dean Rusk
', '“Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.”Author Unknown
', '“The best salespeople are great listeners — that’s how you find out what the buyer wants.”Spencer Johnson and Larry Wilson
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