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“I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his 'method' if you can count on your inspiration and it was a moment of inspiration that came to me, not in rehearsal but on stage. It hit me right there in the middle of the play and it was great - it travelled into immediate communication.”

Ifs Needs Play Moments Inspiration Waiting Middle Stage Communication Lucky Method Rehearsal Yale Godot Waiting For Godot Stanislavski

Author:Sam Waterston

“Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling.”

Source: Foundation Trilogy

“A surefire method of setting up regular communication with your kids is to get a job in an office which discourages personal phone calls. Your kids will then call you every hour on the hour.”

Children Kids Jobs Hours Communication Office Our Children Method Phones Setting Settings Telephones Discouraging Phone Calls

Book:Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)

Source: Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)

“Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.”

Thinking Want Purpose Lost Consciousness Communication Method Mechanic Nonviolent Communication Getting Lost Intentionality

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope.”

Source: The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

“Vocal rest is awesome. It is like any kind of fast. Firstly, it is a purification of speech. It made me realize how not careful I am with the things I say. It also makes you find new ways of communication and new methods to connect with people.”

People Way Kind Made Realizing Communication Speech Method Careful New Ways Vocal Purification

Author:Matisyahu

“I think that's the key [of communication] - to not use one method of communication for all people.”

People Thinking Use Communication Keys Method

Author:Mark Boyle

“Think of it as the military doing a spectacular hack as opposed to blowing things up. The internet allows ISIS to have a secure method of communication across the globe. It helps the group recruit and raise money. That's the bad news.”

Thinking Helping Groups Military Communication Internet News Raises Method Secure Globes Spectacular Isis Bad News Hacks Recruit

Author:Dina Temple-Raston

“I know that fundamentally, changes to the fabric of the internet, and sort of our methods of communication, can enforce our rights.”

Knows Rights Communication Internet Method Fabric

Author:Edward Snowden

“Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires.”

Inspirational Mean Self Desire Purpose Practice Communication Shapes Ideals Letters Method Reform Humiliation Embarrassing

Book:The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

Source: The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

“In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]”

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Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.”

Way Trying Sometimes Song Speak Communication Drink Speech Method Communicate Supposed To Be Chocolate

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“If you feel yourself to be a full member in the world, you probably won't turn to writing, because other methods of communication, more direct methods, will strike you as being more available.”

Ifs World Feels Writing Turns Communication Members Direct Method Available Strikes

Author:Margot Livesey

“Taking advantage of the method, found by me, of the black staining of the elements of the brain, staining obtained by the prolonged immersion of the pieces, previously hardened with potassium or ammonium bichromate, in a 0.50 or 1.0% solution of silver nitrate, I happened to discover some facts concerning the structure of the cerebral gray matter that I believe merit immediate communication.”