Browsing Quotes With Tag: communication (72)
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anger is just vulnerability’s mask.
Speaker: Warren FarrellPosted: 09 Jan 2015 at 2:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Certain types of loudmouth-ism should be a capital offense among decent people.
Speaker: Robert HeinleinSource: the Moon is a Harsh MistressPosted: 02 Dec 2013 at 9:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It seems to me a lot of trouble in this world has its origins in vague speech. Most people, when they go around not speaking clearly, somewhere in their unconscious they’re asking for trouble
Speaker: Haruki MurakamiSource: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A question where everyone always answers “Strongly Agree” is a weak question
Speaker: Marcus Buckingham & Curt CoffmanSource: First, Break All the RulesPosted: 08 May 2010 at 8:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them
Speaker: Cato the ElderPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.
Speaker: Winston ChurchillPosted: 12 Jan 2010 at 3:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.
Speaker: James Nathan MillerPosted: 12 Jan 2010 at 3:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.
Speaker: John KnowlesSource: A Separate PeacePosted: 17 Dec 2009 at 4:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Speaker: Lao TzuPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 3:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“But I will say no more about it. Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“You are clever, O Samana,” said the Illustrious One, “you know how to speak cleverly, my friend. Be on your guard against too much cleverness.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Let me warn you, you who are thirsty for knowledge, against the thicket of opinions and the conflict of words. Opinions mean nothing. they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Definitions are not correct or incorrect, they are simply useful or useless, where usefulness is judged by the clarity of one’s attempts at communication.
Speaker: SeanPosted: 06 Aug 2009 at 9:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Speaker: Michel de MontaignePosted: 05 Aug 2009 at 6:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Speaker: Bertrand RussellPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 7:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Speaker: Eleanor RooseveltPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 7:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 9:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!