One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘
Brene BrownIt is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
James BaldwinThe language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David ThoreauMy aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest HemingwayYou can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
Abraham MaslowPrayer 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 MeyerThere are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Ronald ReaganThe only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will RogersThe perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard ShawWe’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.
Carl SaganI took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
Mahatma GandhiThe moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
Oscar WildeNo man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry AdamsTrust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen CoveyIf you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
Elon MuskIt is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John RuskinAlways prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.
C. S. LewisMy name can’t be that tough to pronounce!
Keanu Reeves‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
Alice WalkerLanguage is the dress of thought.
Samuel JohnsonWhen we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to test the phrasing and concept. If I could grasp it quickly, then it passed with muster. We would get our message across only if it was understandable at first glance.
Richard BransonI think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill GatesTo me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.
Brene BrownOur heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt DisneyI’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.
Muhammad AliI’m guarded; I don’t talk much.
David ByrneI used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.
Joe BidenI don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.
Joe BidenPeople use irony as a defense mechanism.
David ByrneThose who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.
Herbert HooverTalk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas CarlyleWar is what happens when language fails.
Margaret AtwoodI would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
Charles SpurgeonA saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.
Russell M. NelsonHe that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Francis BaconIn human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David ThoreauIn the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Stephen CoveyI think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.
Mark ZuckerbergYou have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.
Jordan PetersonIt’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.
Henry KissingerSPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.
Bill GatesIn terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.
Mark ZuckerbergYou carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.
Thich Nhat HanhIt is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich NietzscheA hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob DylanFor, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas CarlyleLying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
Albert CamusI soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne FrankBlack people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.
Maya AngelouOurs is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.
Barack ObamaI suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.
Jordan PetersonYou can only have one aim per debate.
Christopher HitchensOur life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
Henry David ThoreauThe noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da VinciWhen I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
Bob UeckerI try to speak in a way that people can understand.
John KennedyNobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Theodore RooseveltWhat you guys want, I’m for.
Dan QuayleIt used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.
Mark ZuckerbergIn order to have friends, you must first be one.
Elbert Hubbard