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I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. --Tom Lehrer
An after-dinner speech should be like a lady's dress-long enough to cover the subject and short enough to be interesting. Richard Austen Butler, politician
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are. -- Alford
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi
Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley
Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill
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
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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		Management Insights Management Communication I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. --Tom Lehrer An after-dinner speech should be like a lady's dress-long enough to cover the subject and short enough to be interesting. Richard Austen Butler, politician Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are. -- Alford I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill 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 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway IIM Executive Education and Management Training IIM experts research, develop and disseminate management-best-practices and learned-lessons from the leading management gurus. For advanced executive education and training opportunities, please refer to IIM Management Training Courses
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