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沟通Communication[英语名人名言]

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Elegance¹ of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity² 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 prudence³, say what you are.

-- Alford

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

-- Anonymous⁴

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 bust⁵.

-- 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.

-- Kin⁶ 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

Tact⁷ is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

-- Abraham Lincoln

Good communication is as stimulating⁸ 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 stifle⁹ is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling¹⁰ 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 perfectly¹¹ delightful¹².

-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay

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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1 elegance
n.优雅；优美，雅致；精致，巧妙
参考例句：
The furnishings in the room imparted an air of elegance.这个房间的家具带给这房间一种优雅的气氛。 John has been known for his sartorial elegance.约翰因为衣着讲究而出名。

2 simplicity
n.简单，简易；朴素；直率，单纯
参考例句：
She dressed with elegant simplicity.她穿着朴素高雅。 The beauty of this plan is its simplicity.简明扼要是这个计划的一大特点。

3 prudence
n.谨慎，精明，节俭
参考例句：
A lack of prudence may lead to financial problems.不够谨慎可能会导致财政上出现问题。 The happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.幸运者都把他们的成功归因于谨慎或功德。

4 anonymous
adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的
参考例句：
Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。 The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

5 bust
vt.打破；vi.爆裂；n.半身像；胸部
参考例句：
I dropped my camera on the pavement and bust it. 我把照相机掉在人行道上摔坏了。 She has worked up a lump of clay into a bust.她把一块黏土精心制作成一个半身像。

6 kin
n.家族，亲属，血缘关系；adj.亲属关系的，同类的
参考例句：
He comes of good kin.他出身好。 She has gone to live with her husband's kin.她住到丈夫的亲戚家里去了。

7 tact
n.机敏，圆滑，得体
参考例句：
She showed great tact in dealing with a tricky situation.她处理棘手的局面表现得十分老练。 Tact is a valuable commodity.圆滑老练是很有用处的。

8 stimulating
adj.有启发性的，能激发人思考的
参考例句：
shower gel containing plant extracts that have a stimulating effect on the skin 含有对皮肤有益的植物精华的沐浴凝胶 This is a drug for stimulating nerves. 这是一种兴奋剂。

9 stifle
vt.使窒息；闷死；扼杀；抑止，阻止
参考例句：
She tried hard to stifle her laughter.她强忍住笑。 It was an uninteresting conversation and I had to stifle a yawn.那是一次枯燥无味的交谈，我不得不强忍住自己的呵欠。

10 stifling
a.令人窒息的
参考例句：
The weather is stifling. It looks like rain. 今天太闷热，光景是要下雨。 We were stifling in that hot room with all the windows closed. 我们在那间关着窗户的热屋子里，简直透不过气来。

11 perfectly
adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地
参考例句：
The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。 Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

12 delightful
adj.令人高兴的，使人快乐的
参考例句：
We had a delightful time by the seashore last Sunday.上星期天我们在海滨玩得真痛快。 Peter played a delightful melody on his flute.彼得用笛子吹奏了一支欢快的曲子。

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