Quotes About Communication

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Most of this long and twisted course could have been avoided, however, in both lesser and greater affairs, if the tried and true methods of observing, listening, comparing, and thinking before speaking had been adopted. But speech, by itself, is so much easier than all the rest put together that we, too—by which I mean we humans in general—deserve a measure of indulgence. Skip

How can I be of assistance to you?" asked Don Rodrigo, staking himself in the center of the room. This was how his words sounded, but the way he said them clearly meant: Mind whom you're speaking with, watch what you say, and be quick about it.

oral history is ultimately ... a document that we do not find but rather cocreate inside the interview

An inter/view is an exchange of gazes, persons both seeing and listening to each other.

The interview is two things at once: a tool for research, and the opening of a narrative space.

The root meaning of the word dialogue is "to speak across," "to speak beyond." This suggests that the crucial element is space, both social and geo- graphic: the distance, the difference, the otherness between the two partners involved

it is important that we enter the interview with a great degree of flexibility, ready not only to accept the narrator's agenda but also to modify our own.

The interview is not a question-and-answer session, but the offer of a narrative possibility

The interview gives us access not to the experience but to a verbal rendition of the memory of that experience, generated by the presence of the interviewer.

It can't be 'true' love without the truth

Oh! I thought you were the man with the dress." "He could put one on for you," said Velius. "He's got the legs for it.

I have never met a writer who didn't need an editor, and an editor without a writer is a person without a job. It is a fraught and often-imperfect relationship, of course, dating back to the beginning of time. You remember; after God moved upon the darkness, he proclaimed, "I've put in place some very wondrous illumination here!" And Mrs. God gently suggested the more pithy: 'Let there be light.

At an academic conference I learned the old adage that everything has been said, but not everyone has said it.

They talked about Brando. Bridges said that his brother, Beau, once worked with Brando and the great actor said, "I want to have eye contact with you, do you mind putting the lines on your forehead?

Afternoon. I'm Rick. What can I do you for today?" "Put the preposition in the right place.

They were among the leaders of what I had begun to think of as "Team Apocalypse," the media outlets that – for reasons I could not fully understand – seemed committed to painting as bleak a picture of the coronavirus as possible.

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numbers. "I'll be back with the phone in a few

email will attract way more referrals. Let's say, for example, you're working with Sony; the

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Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can't relax here you never will

Violence is a means of bargaining and signalling value within the marketplace.

There's a reason that God gave us two ears, two eyes and one mouth. It's so you can listen and watch twice as much as you talk. Best of all, listening costs you nothing.