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Deborah Tannen: “Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.”

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Baruch Spinoza: “The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.”

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Rachel Naomi Remen: “The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”

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Marshall Rosenberg: “Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.”

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Joseph Campbell: “'What will they think of me?' must be put aside for bliss.”

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Margaret J. Wheatley: “[A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about.”

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Francis of Assisi: “While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. ”

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Marshall Rosenberg: “You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had. ”

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Elbert Hubbard: “Live truth instead of expressing it.”

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Rachel Naomi Remen: “Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.”

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Heinrich Heine: “True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.”

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Anne Adams: “There is an endless net of threads throughout the universe... At every crossing of the threads there is an individual. And every individual is a crystal bead. And every crystal bead reflects Not only the light from every other crystal in the net But also every other reflection Throughout the entire universe.”

an adaptation of one of the oldest written creations of humanity: “The Net of Jewels, or Indra's Net”

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Deborah Tannen: “The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation -- or a relationship.”

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William Butler Yeats: “Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”

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Faith Baldwin: “Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.”

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George Bernard Shaw: “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

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Bill Gates: “I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.”

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Jessamyn West: “There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.”

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Stephen King: “The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.”

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Ernest Hemingway: “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

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David Bohm: “Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.”

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Brian Tracy: “Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.”

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Bill Clinton: “We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged.”

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Thor Heyerdahl: “Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication -- particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials. ”

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Betty Williams: “There's no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution.”

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Rowan D. Williams: “Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.”

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Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.”

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Anthony Robbins: “The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.”

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Abraham Maslow: “But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.”

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Deborah Tannen: “Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.”

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