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  • #2
    George Bernard Shaw
    “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #3
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #4
    Stephen R. Covey
    “When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.”
    Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #5
    Oliver Sacks
    “We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.”
    Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices

  • #6
    United Nations
    “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
    United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  • #7
    Lawrence Clark Powell
    “Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
    Lawrence Clark Powell

  • #8
    Shannon L. Alder
    “A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #9
    Peggy O'Mara
    “The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.”
    Peggy O'Mara

  • #10
    Guy de Maupassant
    “It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.”
    Guy de Maupassant

  • #11
    Lao Tzu
    “To speak little is natural. Therefore a gale does not blow a whole morning nor does a downpour last a whole day.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #12
    Virginia Woolf
    “Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader

  • #13
    Phyllis Theroux
    “To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.”
    Phyllis Theroux

  • #14
    Anne Carson
    “Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.”
    Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

  • #15
    Rasmenia Massoud
    “I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it.”
    Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

  • #16
    Kelli Jae Baeli
    “Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say.”
    Kelli Jae Baeli, ISO (In Search Of): The Art of Dating, Relationships & Sex for the Discerning Lesbian

  • #17
    Lolly Daskal
    “Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.”
    Lolly Daskal, Thoughts Spoken From The Heart

  • #18
    William Shakespeare
    “Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.”
    William Shakespeare

  • #19
    Confucius
    “Words are the voice of the heart.”
    Confucius

  • #20
    Gary L. Francione
    “People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices”
    Gary L. Francione

  • #21
    John Green
    “Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.”
    John Green

  • #22
    Christopher Moore
    “The medium obscured the message.”
    Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

  • #23
    “The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.”
    Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

  • #24
    “The essence of communication is intention.”
    Werner Erhard

  • #25
    Walter Pater
    “It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.”
    Walter Pater

  • #26
    Therone Shellman
    “When one comes from the bottom they know how to deal with people on the bottom.
    When one educates themself to communicate they learn how to deal with a multitude of types of people.

    Life experience, and communication is at the core of people relations.”
    Therone Shellman

  • #27
    Kahlil Gibran
    “It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.”
    Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam



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