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• Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't even matter.

  Gil Amelio

  Motivational, Leadership, Knowledge

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• Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

  Abraham Maslow

  Way, Language, Hiding

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• Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

  Benjamin Banneker

  Science, Evil, Manners

  Friends' Intelligencer, Volume XI (p. 821), 1854.

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• Many a man's tongue broke his nose.

  Seumas MacManus

  Men, Noses, Tongue

  Seumas MacManus (1950). “Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain”

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• The goal of art-making in general is communication.

  Will Cotton

  Art, Goal, Art Making

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• The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

  Richard Moss

  Educational, Wrestling, Listening To Others

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• Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

  Alice Hoffman

  I Miss You, Missing You, Beautiful

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.81, Penguin Group

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• Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

  Leo Rosten

  Mean, Thinking, Extremist

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book compiled by Laurence J. Peter, p. 100, 1979.

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• Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Ideas

  Ansel Adams (1962). “Basic Photo: Artificial-light photography”

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• The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

  Willa Cather

  Teaching, Age, Trying

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.749, Simon and Schuster

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• Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

  Quentin Crisp

  Truth, Diplomatic Relations, Language

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• Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Humor, Intelligent, Long

  "Benjamin Disraeli: An Unconventional Biography". Book by Wilfrid Meynell, 1903.

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• People change and forget to tell each other.

  Lillian Hellman

  Relationship, Change, Marriage

  Lillian Hellman (1960). “Toys in the Attic: A Drama in Three Acts”, Dramatist's Play Service

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• As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

  Bobby Jindal

  Government, Louisiana, Aftermath

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• It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

  George Eliot

  Feelings, Language, Fine

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• The first duty of love is to listen.

  Paul Tillich

  Love, Life, Marriage

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• I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

  Robert McCloskey

  Believe, Knowledge, Learning

  TV Guide, March 31, 1984.

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• What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Character

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• You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation.

  Jim Rohn

  Giving, Preparation, Needs

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 01, 2015

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• 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

  Light, Ignorant, Share

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.

  Fred Rogers

  Fear, Grief, People

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• Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

  Bill Gates

  Action, Nervous, Strategy

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• One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Communicate, Consolation

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• There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not approach in importance the communication of what mathematics is really about, of where it is going, and of where it currently stands with respect to the specific branch of it being taught. What really matters is the communication of the spirit of mathematics. It is a spirit that is active rather than contemplative-a spirit of disciplined search for adventures of the intellect. Only as adventurer can really tell of adventures.

  Alfred Adler

  Teacher, Adventure, Science

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• As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36)

  Jon Stewart

  Book, Mean, Sound

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