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“People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.”

People Art Humor Funny Lost Language Communication Conversation Lost Friendship Lost Art

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.”

People Needs Real Wish Realizing Teach Failing Communication Listening Institute Effective Listening

Book:Iacocca: An Autobiography

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.”

People Ifs War Would Be Action Communication Mass Tasks Revolutionary Desperate Deceiving Bloody Concealed Extermination

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.”

People Country Helping Form Winning Force Impossible Communication Revolution Victory International Various Genuine Revolutionary

Book:On people's democratic dictatorship: written in commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, July 1, 1949

Source: On people's democratic dictatorship: written in commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, July 1, 1949

“Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them.”

People Doe Moving Heard Emotional Communication Depends Messages Rhetoric Eloquence Syntax Articulation

Book:Friedman's Fables

Source: Friedman's Fables

“I think that all money can do is to get your message out. Unfortunately, we live in a world where you have to use mass media to communicate with the people, and it just costs an awful lot of money.”

People Thinking World Use Can Do Media Communication Cost Messages Mass Communicate Awful Lots Of Money Mass Media

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may have never even heard of Jesus.”

People May Jesus Audience Heard Air Television Communication Program Billions

Author:Joyce Meyer

“News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.”

People Giving Two Ideas Passion Television Communication Paper News Communicate Alternatives Papers My Passion

Author:Rupert Murdoch

“I've always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that I am in the pure business aspects.”

People Political Position Communication Pure Aspect Communicate Newspapers Day To Day Thrill

Author:Rupert Murdoch

“People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.”

People Passion Vision Communication

Author:Anita Roddick

“It is really important for us that people understand what the strategy is and that the real approach is to make everything social, not to build a vertical approach.”

People Important Real Social Communication Approach Strategy Vertical

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.”

People Running Jobs Romance Law Space Communication Medicine Profession Finance Journalism Rely Small Business Academia Breach Confidential Confidentiality

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.”

People Felt Communication Uncomfortable Redneck Hanging On Barricades

Author:Mac Davis

“People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes, but only by profound revolutions and bloody struggles; they have learned that the question is not that of a fraternal union of all European peoples under a single republican flag, but of an alliance of the revolutionary peoples against the counter-revolutionary peoples, an alliance which comes into being not on paper, but only on the battlefield.”

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

“Violence is the easy way out and it only leads to more violence. We need people in this world who are willing to find solutions through peace, through communication, honesty and diplomacy. World peace may seem impossible, but it's worth aiming for.”

People World Way Needs May Seems Strong Easy Violence Impossible Honesty This World Willing Communication Solutions Diplomacy Stay Strong Easy Way

Book:Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year

Source: Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year

“Real communication happens when people feel safe.”

People Thinking Feels Real Happens Communication Safe

Book:The Heart of a Leader

Source: The Heart of a Leader

“It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.”

People Thinking Language Growth Born Natural Player Stage Communication Mass Baseball Educated Delicate Decay Baseball Player Slang Delicate Things

Book:Later Novels & Other Writings

Source: Later Novels & Other Writings

“Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.”

People Two Language Principles Communication Conflict Arguing Dialogue Good People Conflict Resolution

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.”

People Giving Writing Doe Different Self Song Process Imagine Communication Involved Mass Aspect Pursuit Performing Poetry Is Songwriting Solitary Lofty

Author:Patti Smith

“The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”

People Character Communication Presses Guardian Examining

Book:The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions

Source: The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions

“There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.”

People Way Hard Honest Car Communication Computer Communicate Telephones Transportation

Author:Jason Schwartzman

“Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman’s bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can’t we be friendly?”

People Ifs Men Hands Deals Communication Bottom Friendly Salt Robust Woman Worth

Author:Jeremy Irons

“We must keep in mind that only a part of memory can be translated into the language-based packets of information people use to tell their life stories to others. Learning to be open to many layers of communication is a fundamental part of getting to know another person's life.”

People Knows Mind Persons Stories Use Language Memories Information Communication Fundamentals Layers Life Story

Book:The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

Source: The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are