
The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill, is cordial speech.
- Topic: Communication, Conflict, Public Speaking, Speech
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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.
› Tony Robbins
The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and touch another person. When this is done, I feel contact has been made.
› Virginia Satir
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense to everything.
› Aristotle
No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.
› Nelson Mandela
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.
› Abraham Lincoln
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
› John Stuart Mill
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
› Martin Luther King Jr.
I rebel; therefore I exist.
› Albert Camus
The 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. . . . Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon the definition of liberty.
› Abraham Lincoln
People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
› Steve Jobs
Understanding a question is half an answer.
› Socrates
We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
› Hesiod
He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.
› Moliere
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
› James Allen
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
› Pearl S. Buck
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
› Louis Dembitz Brandeis
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
› Voltaire
The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.
› Nikola Tesla
When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.
› Thomas Jefferson
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people to peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. -First Amendment
› Constitution of the United States
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
› John Adams
