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Communication is the real work of leadership.

Nitin Nohria

Leadership, Real, Real Work

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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Adrienne Rich

Truth, Integrity, Liars

Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

Wayne Dyer

Inspirational, Karma, Listening

FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from May 06, 2011

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That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

Miguel de Cervantes

Feelings, Capable, Effective Communication

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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Michel de Montaigne

Order, Language

Michel de Montaigne (1856). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.86

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Talk about life - but in your own way.

Howard Pyle

Way

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A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

Robert M. Hutchins

Mean, Ideas, Community

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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Abraham Maslow

Defense, Way, Language

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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Erma Bombeck

Inspirational, Life, Listening

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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Andre Gide

Learning, Knowledge, Listening

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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

Marshall McLuhan

Men, Media, Talking

Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore (1967). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Gingko Pr Inc

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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

M. Scott Peck

Inspirational, Time, Coaching

M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

Oliver Evans

Thinking, Two, Persons

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Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.

T. S. Eliot

Simple, Reality, Government

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Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.

Alfred Jarry

Talking, Mind

"That Ubu that you do" by Mike Barnes, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

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What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss

Joseph Campbell

Thinking, Bliss, Think Of Me

Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.48, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.

Njabulo S Ndebele

Attitude, Goal, Perception

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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

Life Changing, Mean, People

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Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.

Kenya Hara

Successful, Opinion, Wells

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When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.

Emile Chartier

Fashion, Song, Art

"The Gods". Book by Emile Chartier, 1934.

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Communication works for those who work at it.

John Powell

Work, Media, Effectiveness

John Powell, Loretta Brady (1985). “Will the real me please stand up?: so we can all get to know you! : 25 guidelines for good communication”, Thomas More Pr

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Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Simon Sinek

Leadership, Business, Thinking

"Simon Sinek's Logistics Of Leadership". www.askmen.com.

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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Khalil Gibran

Love, Moving On, Marriage

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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Business, Past, Language Words

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1840). “The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume”, p.313

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