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Quotes About Communication

You may or may not have noticed an overall degradation of the language, and a proliferation of errors of spelling and grammar in even the most official documents?
~ Dave Eggers
for there was no local news, there were no journalists—all of that wiped out by social media, the advertising apocalypse and, more than anything else, the war on subjectivity—
~ Dave Eggers
There's nothing that could change our lives quicker than having the technology to access web-based services and communicate via text and email to providers of help and agency.
~ Dave Eggers
My every meeting, movement, my every word, will be available to all my constituents and to the world.
~ Dave Eggers
The elevator reads your ID, and then says hello.
~ Dave Eggers
Running a business murders your ability to be the kind of friend people expect or deserve. Days and weeks go by and there can be no keeping up. Her best friends were her oldest friends, who did not expect constant contact. Everyone else was disappointed.
~ Dave Eggers
That was last week's messages? Eight thousand?" "You can catch up
~ Dave Eggers
The needed to talk about Annie, the thoughts she was thinking. Why shouldn't they know them? The world deserved nothing less and would not wait.
~ Dave Eggers
because total non-communication in a place like the circle was so difficult, it felt like violence
~ Dave Eggers
Los secretos son mentiras. Compartir es querer. La privacidad es un robo.
~ Dave Eggers
It was also a good time to figure out this relationship with Tyler. We'd been going out for eight months by now, but our feelings were nomadic, too, hard to pin down. Or at least hard to talk about. We were very similar. We were wary of commitment. We ached for new experiences. We feared routine, conformity, and, most of all, the end of our youth. Of course we didn't say any of this – we didn't know how. We barely knew it ourselves.
~ Dave Eggers
I am alive and you are alive so we must fill the air with our words. I will fill today, tomorrow, every day until I am taken back to God. I will tell stories to people who will listen and to people who don't want to listen, to people who seek me out and to those who run. All the while I will know that you are there. How can I pretend that you do not exist? It would be almost as impossible as you pretending that I do not exist.
~ Dave Eggers
We've sent over 180 million frowns from the U.S alone, and you can bet that has an effect on the regime.
~ Dave Eggers
Friday's mail (the only day the post office still operated)
~ Dave Eggers
She clicked on Mae's life preserver.
~ Dave Eggers
Rule #9: You're unlikely to regret much of what you don't say.
~ Unknown
Kling's point is that no matter what language we speak, we should use slow thinking, not fast thinking. Citing Daniel Kahneman's bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kling argues that we go wrong in political discourse when we hear a fact in isolation and jump to conclusions without considering its context. He encourages us to consider political problems slowly and logically instead—much like Elder did in our 2016 interview.
~ Dave Rubin
David A. Livermore
~ Unknown
Reassurance, like offence, is taken not given.
~ David Adam
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be: "meetings." —DAVE BARRY
~ David Allen
Nothing is really new in this high-tech, globally wired world, except how frequently it is.
~ David Allen
It is better to be wrong than to be vague. —Freeman Dyson
~ David Allen
More formal and structured meetings also tend to skip over at least one critical issue, such as why the project is being done in the first place.
~ David Allen
The real challenge is to make good communication a handy and well-used tool. Then you are likely to pick it up and use it without thinking. —MAX DEPREE
~ David Allen