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“I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me.”
“Everything is in the way the material is composed.”
“Open scatter is more fundamental than coupled sharing; it is the stuff from which, on splendid occasions, dialogue may arise.”
“Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.”
“We speak, and write, in one of the most diverse, gloriously ecumenical tongues on the planet. In English, there is a word or phrase for pretty much anything we want to say, and if there isn't, we m...”
“As human beings, how do we choose to react in that instant when someone walks toward us, smiles, and begins to speak?”
“Communication creates collaboration. Big ears are better than big egos. When youre not listening, ask good questions.”
“Just as we use speech and gestures to communicate, so we use touch. Words can say, I love you, but touch can also say how and how much, and, at the same time, I respect you, I need you, and thank y...”
“Remember, no one can read your mind. Peoples actions or lack of, are not always purposeful. If you have a problem that you wish solved, you must communicate it. If you dont want to communicate your...”
“No" works just fine as a complete sentence. You don't have to explain yourself.I said no, then stopped talking.”
“There is no one-size-fits-all in communicationeveryones interpretation of what what you say and how you say it is different.”
“I've been watching you ever since you came into town, and you never gave a single sign that you were interested in her. That's why I made a move. If I couldn't tell, neither can she.""I'm very bad ...”
“I am alone, but never lonely. I am lonely, but never alone.”
“Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.”
“Communication is the oxygen of a great culture.”
“Media: the tongue of a nation!”
“Every new form of communication brings with it a perennial angst about what it is doing to our brains. We are not the first to feel that everything is changing too quickly around us, and we won't b...”
“You must be open and influenceable; then ironically, you will also discover an increase in your own power to influence”
“The messages must be stuck somewhere in the tube of light underneath the ocean that connects London and New York.”
“Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.”