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“Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.”
“Would you like the rhythm of your heart to be calm?Would you like the music of your soul towards harmony and fulfillment?Deal with any conflict constructively to reduce stress, tension and other un...”
“Silence often speaks louder than words. To be heard is nice to be understood is divine.”
“In preaching conservative doctrine, Goldwater's jeremiads seemed to be preaching the end of the old world, while Reagan's pep talks seemed to trumpet the beginning of a new one.”
“People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they're talking to one another across a distance, each from an observation post standing in...”
“Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.”
“Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you dont find under most other circumstances.”
“One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is.”
“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
“Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.”
“Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.”
“Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.”
“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
“Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
“Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.”
“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about ...”
“Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.”
“It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.”
“Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.”
