Tone can be as important as text.
The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.
I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.
Don’t talk to me about a man’s being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn’t mean they are great communicators in person.
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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