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COMMUNICATION
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How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but by how well we are understood.
Andrew S. Grove
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The first and most difficult task of dialogue involves parking the ego and listening with an open spirit. From this receptivity can come questions which lead to understanding. To ask these questions requires that one no longer need to have the best or last answer. Expanding one's understanding becomes more important than being right or getting one's point across.
Ann McGee-Cooper
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You better know your song before you sing it.
Bob Dylan
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Words have the power to destroy or heal. When words are true and kind they can change the world.
Buddha
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The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.
Daniel W. Davenport
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Communication is really all anyone ever gets paid for ultimately...and if you cannot effectively communicate...you will PAY...not get paid.
Doug Firebaugh
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained as stupidity.
Hanlan's Razor
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The form is the message and the message is the form.
Heinz von Foerster
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry B. Adams
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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert
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I am sorry for the length of my letter, but I had not the time to write a short one.
Mark Twain, Voltaire, Pascal, Pliney, Proust
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To create better health in a living system, connect it to more of itself.
Meg Wheatley
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Peter Drucker
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Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
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You cannot not communicate.
Steve Andreas
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