|
|
If I am
to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen
minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am
ready now. |
Woodrow
Wilson |
|
People
say
conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. |
Edward
R. Murrow |
|
Never
mistake legibility for communication. |
David
Carson |
|
Every
improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. |
Frank
Moore Colby |
|
Nothing
is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood. |
Freeman
Teague Jr. |
|
The
greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has
been accomplished. |
George
Bernard Shaw |
|
From
listening comes wisdom and from
speaking, repentance. |
Proverb |
|
A good
memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which
gives immortality to conversation. |
Mark
Twain |
|
Every
man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other
man has a right to knock him down for it. |
Samuel
Johnson |
|
I like
to
talk with people who express my thoughts clearly. |
Unknown |
|
Words
are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. |
Rudyard
Kipling |
|
Uncooked truth, like uncooked vegetables, is healthier. |
Vadim Kotelnikov |
|
If you
can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still
call him vile names. |
Elbert
Hubbard |
|
A bore
is a person who talks when you wish him to
listen. |
Ambrose
Bierce |
|
One
should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman
who would tell one that, would tell one anything. |
Oscar
Wilde |
|
I have
found the best way to give advice to your children is to find
out what they want and then advise them to do it. |
Harry
S. Truman |
|
Half
the world is composed of people who have something to say and
can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on
saying it. |
Robert
Frost |
|
The
time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head
affirmatively, but says nothing. |
Henry
S. Haskins |
