My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.
—George Bernard Shaw
Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts
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Post #1223
The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.
—Mark Twain
—Mark Twain
Friday, February 01, 2013
Post #1179
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever so effective as a rightly timed pause.
—Mark Twain
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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