When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘
Brian EnoHonest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma GandhiIf you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.
Groucho MarxI miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying ‚Hi‘ and having a conversation about life. I love people.
Lady GagaAs soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.
Christopher ColumbusPeople have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
Mark ZuckerbergI don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.
Noam ChomskyI think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
Marilyn MonroeThe trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard ShawBefore a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
H. L. MenckenOf course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
Douglas AdamsTell them to send everything that can fly.
Richard M. NixonIf you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOn TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.
Bob UeckerThe most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen KingWe’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
Lady GagaMany people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.
Greta ThunbergI once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.
Noam ChomskyThe only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will RogersAt Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.
Mark ZuckerbergWords, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William ShakespeareIf you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.
Taylor SwiftConstant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert SchweitzerOccasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.
Billy GrahamMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor DostoevskyPrayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.
Joyce MeyerI think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.
Jane GoodallSilence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard ShawA friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TolkienPeople have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.
Kurt VonnegutA person hears only what they understand.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNo one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.
Paulo CoelhoSometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.
Robert KiyosakiWhen he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.
Dwayne JohnsonYou have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
Lady GagaWords are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.
Charlie ChaplinI hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
Brian EnoI want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.
Joyce MeyerThe royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale CarnegieForgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert FrostThere is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.
Richard P. FeynmanSincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.
Billy GrahamThe shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham LincolnWe want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.
Barack ObamaWhen I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.
Abby Lee MillerEver since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.
Douglas AdamsYou could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.
Noam ChomskyWe shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
Harry S. TrumanI think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.
Taylor SwiftChange happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
Jane GoodallWhat women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.
Kevin HartWhen I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
Brian EnoTo use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.
Friedrich NietzscheOften, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
Eckhart TolleSpeak low, if you speak love.
William ShakespeareI just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.
George W. Bush‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
C. S. LewisMany parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.
Christopher HitchensI very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.
Jeff BezosFrank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli