796 quotes found
“Much of human communication is a monologue delivered to anyone who will listen. A real dialogue allows many to express and has the chance of leading to more discovery.”
“The author's mentor advises the NAKED method of breaking the ice at the first meeting: Name, Address, Kin, Experience, and Dreams.”
“Bill Bryson's is a synthesizing intellect, capable of translating myriad data into a digestible narrative rare currency in an increasingly atomized society.”
“Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesnt have to be like this.”
“Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate with mature discourse were amplified by typography, which has the st...”
“I knew that meant we were done and that we'd smooth over the surface I'd just tossed a rock into, but even the waves that crash down on the beach start out as tiny ripples, far out at sea.They just...”
“Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.”
“We may say then that the contribution of the telegraph to public discourse was to dignify irrelevance and amplify impotence. But this was not all: Telegraphy also made public discourse essentially ...”
“When a man says "I know what I mean, but I can't express it," he generally does not know what he meansfor there can be no knowledge without words; there can only be feelings.”
“You can almost always find something in common with another person, and from there, it's much easier to address issues where you have differences. Sports cut across boundaries of race and wealth. A...”
“Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.”
“She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of those may or may not have been true. Its kind of hard to tell, because to be honest, I wasnt liste...”
“This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpected new freedom.”
“We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.”
“Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool.”
“The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same...”
“Look in the mirror. What you see there is what you get from others. When you smile, smile comes back to you. When you get angry, anger comes back to you. When you love, love comes back to you, when...”
“the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.”
“A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. Youll know that youre likeable when you can comm...”
“When it comes to words Mamma says, "If they are not good, then maybe they should not be said.”
