796 quotes found
“The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.”
“Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the sho...”
“For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, 'seeing' and 'speaking' have been separated. We think we're used to it, yet we don't realize the immense im...”
“Madeleine in her turn stared at him steadily, straight into his eyes, in a profound, strange way, as if seeking to read something there, as if seeking to discover there that hidden part of a human ...”
“The value is not in the noise one makes on socialmedia but the voice - the message being heard”
“When you feel good about the value you offer the organization, communicating and demonstrating your value to others is much easier.”
“Communication without a specific focus is just noise. It achieves little beyond taking time and energy.”
“And one of my firmest conclusions is that we always think by seeking and drawing parallels to things we know from our past, and that we therefore communicate best when we exploit examples, analogie...”
“As far as I can figure, the way that it works is this: everyone has something that happened to them. The thing that we each carry. And you can see it in people, if you look. See it in the way someo...”
“Martin Luther was a thoroughly educated man but he wore this lightly. His sermons were littered with only examples and improving tales, drawing equally from the fables of Aesop and the follies of l...”
“The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson”
“Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.”
“I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.”
“It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Thi...”
“Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.”
“To commune with God is to understand love because God is love”
“We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understoodheard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant.”
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“He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.”
“Get specific sooner and reap many rewards. The specific detail or example proves the general conclusion, not the reverse. The more specific you are abut anything the more clear you become, for your...”
