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Communication

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
- Maya Angelou

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.
- Wystan Hugh Auden

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
- Jane Austen

Those who write clearly have readers.
- Albert Camus

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious --
because the obvious is what people need to be told.
- Dale Carnegie

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men
poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes
men martyrs or reformers -- or both.
- Elizabeth Charles

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
- Jean Cocteau

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
- Frank Moore Colby

I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.
- Miles Davis

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk.
- Edgar Degas

Children become what they are told they are.
- Dorothy DeLay

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.
- Jean Dubuffet

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily
think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role
in the communication of important and serious feelings.
- Milton Erikson

How many languages do we really speak?
- Alfredo Jaar

Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.
- Alfred Jarry

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate.
Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to
communicate them by words if any other medium is available.
- C. S. Lewis

Example moves the world more than doctrine.
- Henry Miller

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete
technique of all communication.
- Claus Oldenburg

The tongue can paint what the eye can't see.
- Chinese proverb

You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which
you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have.
And you cannot give that which you do not possess…
Good communication starts with good preparation.
- Jim Rohn

Promote yourself but do not demote another.
- Israel Salanter

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
- Voltaire

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion.
There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
- Rebecca West

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