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If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#learning #speaking #writing #communication

Try saying this: 'What's true for me today is that I have angry feelings concerning what I heard you say when you said what you said. It reminds me of what my mother said when she said what she said, and that hurts me so that's where I'm at with this, and it's not all right with me for today.' This should help to avoid a lot of communication problems. ↗

— Judith Stone

#humor #communication

I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce. ↗

— Megan Gallagher

#am #anxious #direct #i #like

In order to see, I have to be willing to be seen. ↗

— John Stewart

#communication

The church is missionary by nature because God through the Spirit calls, creates, and commissions the church to communicate to the world that the redemptive reign of God has broken into human history. ↗

— Craig Van Gelder

#communication

On a visit or vacation to Toba Lake, you may say 'Horas' to Batak people, when we meet, visit and shake hands. ↗

— Toba Beta

#communication #good #hello #horas #people

To say exactly what one means, even to one's own private satisfaction, is difficult. To say exactly what one means and to involve another person is harder still. Communication between you and me relies on assumptions, associations, commonalities and a kind of agreed shorthand, which no-one could precisely define but which everyone would admit exists. That is one reason why it is an effort to have a proper conversation in a foreign language. Even if I am quite fluent, even if I understand the dictionary definitions of words and phrases, I cannot rely on a shorthand with the other party, whose habit of mind is subtly different from my own. Nevertheless, all of us know of times when we have not been able to communicate in words a deep emotion and yet we know we have been understood. This can happen in the most foreign of foreign parts and it can happen in our own homes. It would seem that for most of us, most of the time, communication depends on more than words. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#words #art

There is no amount of communication or work that can overcome being with someone who does not want what you want. ↗

— Kevin Darné

#communication

Geez, what do I need to do, use semaphore? I told you I was unclaimed. ↗

— Katie MacAlister

#semaphore #unclaimed #communication

I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that other as well as one knows himself? Heaven knows. I know little enough of myself: I know nothing of others. We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbours. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#choices-and-consequences #communication