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“The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.”
“Radio was theater of the mind.”
“The most powerful words in English are, "Tell me a story.”
“When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.”
“It hurts to get things out in the open, but it hurts even more not to.”
“A number of years ago I had some experience with being alone. For two succeeding years I was alone each winter for eight months at a stretch in the Sierra Nevada mountains on Lake Tahoe. I was the ...”
“Because in some men, it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons - throw it to some human being or some human idea.”
“Has Westhaven taken to gossiping?""He has not, but like most men, you assume the only communications of significance pass between the males of the species.”
“There are those that wonder which is worse: Not being able to reach out or not having anyone to reach for. There are some that ponder which is the greater ache: Not being able to tell or not having...”
“What had happened in these ten years for there suddenly be so much to say so much so pressing that it couldnt wait to be said? Everywhere I walked, somebody was approaching me talking on a phone a...”
“The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.”
“When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.”
“The conversations of men had always been muddy rivers, the surface's roiling a reflection of what's buried, but the bottom some mysterious thing that would always be hidden.”
“Before thinking about what you are going to say, think about what I am saying.”
“Gods secrets are revealed to us through the inter-communication of the spirit of man withthe Spirit of God.”
“The words, I love you, are empty without clarification. Women prefer to be told what they can expect. It is measurable like a Weight Watchers diet, with extra points at the end of the week if you d...”
“Some say Twitter is overrated.Some love it, others hate it.I guess it depends on what you've got,If you have guts to write a funny plot!”
“I would prefer my experiences in communication to have a growth-promoting effect, both on me and on the other, and I should like to avoid those communication experiences in which both I and the oth...”
“Rather than whinge on how another has treated you, give a thought to what it is your upset with? Is It really them or is it yourself.. Did they cross a boundary or have you not set one? Did they co...”
“Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they'...”
