“Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.' He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying…”— Trevor Noah, amazon.com
“Language matters. It is the. . .highest purpose of language to make things clear & help us see. We are all language detectives.”— Rebecca Solnit, amazon.com
“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“In this our country has, in my judgment, thus far fulfilled its highest duty to suffering humanity. It has spoken and will continue to speak, not only by words, but by its acts, the language of sympathy, encouragement, and hope to those who earnestly listen to tones which pronounce for the largest n…”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You’d be amazed how many companies don’t listen to their customers.”— Ross Perot, logomaker.com
“"I'mma rock your boat, just let me be the captain I just have a question, listen to what I'm asking"”— Fetty Wap, genius.com
“If you send a sweet message, you will get sweet messages back tenfold. If you give out anger, you will get anger back tenfold. So just be careful. You are communicating more than you think.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“Technology has made it far too easy for people to be lazy communicators, to be easily distant, to not be present and show up in the ways that require work, and being able to be held accountable when you fail to be and do better as a human.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.”— George Washington Carver, christianquotes.info
“Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.”— George Washington Carver, amazon.com
“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”— George Washington Carver, goodreads.com
“I'm projected as an ambulance chaser, but I'm more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come.… I have never fought a case where they didn't ask me to come. People have this picture like I'm sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. "You hear anything? Oh, let's run! It's Vir…”— Al Sharpton, en.wikiquote.org
“There is a systematic and methodical strategy to eliminate our people from doing business off 125th Street. I want to make it clear … that we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.”— Al Sharpton, amazon.com
“There is a sort of gulf between the older and younger generations. This gulf will have be bridged. There is the feeling that the older and younger generations are quite apart from each other. This is something that should not happen. Whether young or old the entire people should be united.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“If a people or a nation can reach their objectives by disciplined and peaceful means, it would be a most honourable and admirable achievement.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“It’s your responsibility — not your listener’s— to insure that your message gets through, and if you don’t speak up, people can’t help you get what you want.”— Roger Ailes, amazon.com
“In the middle of my playing career, I decided to stop signing autographs. In part, my feelings about autographs is based upon my belief that I’d rather meet someone who approaches me respectfully, talk to them for a minute and look them in the eye, rather than participate in the momentary ritual of…”— Bill Russell, csmonitor.com
“I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.”— Daniel Tosh, amazon.com