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Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.

Clifford Stoll
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I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.

Tommy Lasorda
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No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly. -Ausonius
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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

William Cobbett
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use. -Washington Irving
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Communicate, communicate, and then communicate some more.

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

Dr. John Marshall
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We need to apply the science of communication to the communication of science. -Preston Manning
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Heinrich Heine
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The greatest reward is to know that one can speak and emit articulate sounds and utter words that describe things, events and emotions.

Camilo Jose Cela
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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. -Simone Weil
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Communication is the real work of leadership.

Nitin Nohria
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Democritus
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It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. -Marya Mannes
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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Rebecca West
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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Judith Martin
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I had no trouble communicating, the player's just didn't like what I had to say. -Frank Robinson
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Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

John Kotter
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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
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It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting. -Joseph Priestley
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I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul."

Lefty Gomez
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A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

John Mason Brown
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Communication. It's the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words and really start talking, the harder it becomes to know what to say. Or how to ask for what we really need. -Meredith Grey
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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
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If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

Jacques Chirac
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No fool can be silent at a feast. -Solon
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Examine what is said, not who speaks.

Arabian Proverb
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In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

William Bernbach
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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
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