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If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies. ↗


— Haruki Murakami


#ashes #attack #badass #confidence #death

In most collectivist cultures, direct confrontation of another person is considered rude and undesirable. The word no is seldom used, because saying “no” is a confrontation; “you may be right” and “we will think about it” are examples of polite ways of turning down a request. In the same vein, the word yes should not necessarily be inferred as an approval, since it is used to maintain the line of communication: “yes, I heard you” is the meaning it has in Japan. ↗


— Geert Hofstede


#japan #yes #communication

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas. ↗


— Carolyn Kizer


#commas #death #kizer #poetry #poets

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task. ↗


— Kate DiCamillo


#verbage #vocabulary #words #communication

I could barely manage myself sometimes, let alone some miniature person whose sole method of communication was crying. How would I know what she wanted? How would I keep her happy? ↗


— M.J. O'Shea


#communication

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at all. If the whole of language were present to me when I spoke, then I would not be able to articulate anything at all. The ego, or consciousness, can therefore only work by repressing this turbulent activity, provisionally nailing down words on to meanings. Every now and then a word from the unconscious which I do not want insinuates itself into my discourse, and this is the famous Freudian slip of the tongue or parapraxis. But for Lacan all our discourse is in a sense a slip of the tongue: if the process of language is as slippery and ambiguous as he suggests, we can never mean precisely what we say and never say precisely what we mean. Meaning is always in some sense an approximation, a near-miss, a part-failure, mixing non-sense and non-communication into sense and dialogue. ↗


— Terry Eagleton


#consciousness #discourse #failure #freudian-slips #lacan

The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you. Let your communication with him be controlled by your committment. ↗


— Israelmore Ayivor


#concentrate #concentration #consecration #god #holy

Some of the most awesome and meaningful conversations happen sans the need for words. ↗


— Ruby S. Bernardo


#communication

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another ... ↗


— Maurice Maeterlinck


#communication

Lo importante en nuestra sociedad no es lo que pasa, sino quién cuenta lo que pasa. ↗


— Juan Gabriel Vásquez


#powerful #communication






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