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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Lao Tzu

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms

Voltaire

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

Bill Cosby

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

John Marshall

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use

Washington Irving

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Stephen R. Covey

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

Konstantin Stanislavsky

The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

Dave Barry

If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.

Tom Lehrer

Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.

Joseph Badaracco

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

Edward R. Murrow

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

Margaret Chase Smith

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Emily Dickinson

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese Proverb

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Epictetus

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Mark Twain

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

Elbert Hubbard

Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

Sue Patton Thoele

Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning

Chris Cavanaugh

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Leo Rosten

I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another

Homer

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Richard M. Nixon

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