A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language.
Great communication begins with connection.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
People don’t listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Writing is the painting of the voice.
If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.
Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to you. And Stay.
It’s not what you say, but how you say it!
A word after a word after a word is power.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
Basically I don’t care what people think of me. I’m not in the communications business.
The true beauty of music is that it connects people.
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
The essence of communication is intention.